HEAD and Nginx nginx-0.6.36-1.el5

[Igor Sysoev]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 04:48:46AM -0400, xmichielx wrote:

> Hi Igor,
> 
> Thanks, do you know why the HEAD is returning a 301 with Apache and a 404 with Nginx?
> 
> The nginx access.log:
> 172.23.3.14 - - [10/Sep/2009:20:45:12 +0200] HEAD /web/MYCE.htm HTTP/1.1 "404" 0
>  "-" "Mozilla/4.06  (WinNT; I)" "172.21.0.5, 172.21.0.5"
> 172.21.0.5 - - [10/Sep/2009:20:45:12 +0200] HEAD /MYCE.htm HTTP/1.0 "404" 0 "-"
> "Mozilla/4.06  (WinNT; I)" "-"
> 
> The apache log:
> 
> 172.21.0.5 - - [10/Sep/2009:20:12:56 +0200] "HEAD /MYLER.htm HTTP/1.0" 404 - "-" "Mozilla/4.06  (WinNT; I)"
> 172.21.0.5 - - [10/Sep/2009:20:12:56 +0200] "HEAD /MYCE.htm HTTP/1.0" 404 - "-" "Mozilla/4.06  (WinNT; I)"
> stmycew01.hf.info.nl - - [10/Sep/2009:20:12:58 +0200] "GET /404.html HTTP/1.0" 200 6507 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)l"
> stmycew01.hf.info.nl - - [10/Sep/2009:20:12:58 +0200] "GET /404.html HTTP/1.0" 200 6507 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)l"
> stmycew01.hf.info.nl - - [10/Sep/2009:20:12:58 +0200] "HEAD /web/MYLER.htm HTTP/1.0" 404 - "-" "Mozilla/4.06  (WinNT; I)"
> 
> 
> We also see some Apache DNS lookup proxy messages:
>    proxy: DNS lookup failure for: 172.23.3.14, 172.23.3.14 returned by /MYLER.htm
>    proxy: DNS lookup failure for: 172.23.3.14, 172.23.3.14 returned by /MYCE.htm
>    proxy: DNS lookup failure for: 172.23.3.14, 172.23.3.14 returned by /MYLER.htm
> 
> 
> Only apache on port 80 (normal setup):
> 
> stmycew01.hf.info.nl - - [11/Sep/2009:10:42:57 +0200] "HEAD /MYLER.htm HTTP/1.1" 200 - "-" "Mozilla/4.06  (WinNT; I)"
> stmycew01.hf.info.nl - - [11/Sep/2009:10:42:57 +0200] "HEAD /web/MYLER.htm HTTP/1.1" 200 - "-" "Mozilla/4.06  (WinNT; I)"
> 
> 
> If you want I can post the nginx.conf and the virtual host?
> 
> Kind regards and thanks for your kind help :)

Did you see in nginx error_log ?


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