nginx not picking up error_page

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:28:35AM -0700, Guy Naor wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have an nginx setup to serve rails applications. But for some reason  
> it's not picking up the error_page 400 404 /40x.html.
>
> Here is part of the config file:
>
> This is inside my location / {} config part
>
> error_page   500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
> error_page   404 400 403 /40x.html;
>
> Here is the access log entry. Nginx is getting a 500 but just returning  
> it as is (it's the exception description in rails). But I want it to go  
> to the nicer 50x.html

By default nginx only uses error_page's for errors it generates 
itself.  If you want it to intercept errors returned by backends - 
use proxy_intercept_errors/fastcgi_intercept_errors as 
appropriate.

Maxim Dounin

>
> 72.211.211.12 guy.test.com - [29/Mar/2009:18:17:46 +0000] GET /testpage  
> HTTP/1.1 "500" 21799 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US;  
> rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009030503 Fedora/3.0.7-1.fc10 Firefox/3.0.7" "-"
>
> The error log shown no error, btw.
>
> Bye,
>
> Guy.
>
>