If file not found redirect to proxy...

[Denis F. Latypoff]

Hello just,

Monday, February 18, 2008, 2:48:29 PM, you wrote:

> hi,

> I am using nginx to serve static files and proxying to jetty for dynamic
> pages.

> What I generally do is build the .war file, put it on jetty and also put the
> static files on nginx for nginx to serve.

> Now, can I do this, if some static file is not present in nginx, it will ask
> the jetty server for this file?

> I tried to proxy to jetty server if the requested file is not present, but
> it is not allowing me to put the proxy_pass line inside the if(filenotfound)
> block.

> Is there any other way to achieve that.

location / {
    error_page 404 = @backend;
}

location @backend {
    proxy_pass ...;
}

> Thanks,
> Rakesh.



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 Denis                            mailto:denis at gostats.ru