Problems with fastcgi php migration

[Igor Sysoev]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 04:56:24PM -0400, Ian M. Evans wrote:

> Igor Sysoev wrote:
> >nginx does set any content-type for proxied and fastcgi responses.
> >It should be set by backend.
> 
> Then maybe it's not that.
> 
> Can you think of any other reason why browsers would be trying to 
> download the extensionless files as opposed to seeing them as web pages? 
> As I said last night, the setting you suggested for the extensionless 
> files produced these results:
> 
> > location ~ ^/(galleries|poll|news)/ {
> 
> In IE7:
> calling /galleries/ causes a 404
> calling /galleries runs the script as expected
> 
> In Firefox:
> calling /galleries/ causes a 404
> calling /galleries gives a "Open with.../Save to disk" octet stream 
> dialogue.
> 
> There has to be one final tweak that we're missing. We've been running 
> the extensionless PHP file method for almost a decade under Apache, so 
> we must be missing one last thing that's preventing us from ditching the 
> Apache backend and going 100% nginx.

What does

telnet <your_site> 80
GET /galleries HTTP/1.0

show ?


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