simple try_files not working

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 06:40:30PM +0100, Rapsey wrote:

> What I want is for nginx to serve a file if it can (it exists), if not to
> proxy the request to another server.
> I'm using 0.8.33
> 
> server {
>         listen 8080 default;
>         server_name   ~^(www\.)?(?<domain>.+)$;
>         index index.html index.htm;
> 
>         if ($host ~* www\.(.*)) {
>           set $host_without_www $1;
>           rewrite ^(.*)$ http://$host_without_www$1 permanent;
>         }
>         location / {
>                 root /var/www/htdocs/$domain;
>                 try_files $uri @def;
>         }
> 
>         location ~ \.php$ {
>                 proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
>                 proxy_pass http://localhost:2000;
>         }
> 
>         location @def {
>                proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
>                proxy_pass http://localhost:9090;
>         }
>     }
> }

This is not going to work at all since you have an extra "}".

> If I run:
> curl -v -H "Host: domain.tv" "http://server_ip:8080/somefile"
> 
> The request always gets sent to the server on 9090, even though
> /var/www/htdocs/domain/somefile exists.
> What is wrong with my config?

According to your config file should be at 
/var/www/htdocs/domain.tv/somefile (note ".tv").

Maxim Dounin