Using the access_log if directive in 1.6.x

[sudharshanr]

Valentin V. Bartenev Wrote:
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> On Thursday 11 December 2014 00:33:24 sudharshanr wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm using nginx 1.6.2 on Amazon ec2 linux server. The problem I'm
> having is
> > that all my 404 errors are going to my access.log. I want them to be
> > redirected to error.log instead.
> > 
> > I saw on other forums that with nginx 1.7+, I can use the if
> directive of
> > access_log to do something like:
> > 
> >     map $status $errorable {
> >        ~([^23][0-9][0-9]) 1;
> >        default 0;
> >    }
> >    
> >   access_log /media/ephemeral0/log/nginx/error.log combined
> if=$errorable;
> > 
> > However, I'm not able to do the same with 1.6.2. I don't think I can
> update
> > to 1.7+ as it is not available for ec2 linux servers yet. Is there
> an
> > alternative for doing the same with 1.6.2?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> 
> You can specify separate location for the 404 error page:
> 
>   error_page 404 /404.html;
> 
>   location /404.html {
>       access_log /media/ephemeral0/log/nginx/error.log combined;
>   }
> 
> Or use our official AMIs:
> https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00A04GAG4
> 
>   wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev
> 
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Hello Valentin,

Thank you for your reply. Just one question. It is not just the 404 errors
that I want to redirect. I want to redirect all 4xx and 5xx errors. I have
updated my config file as below, but it doesn't seem to work. The 404 errors
still go to access.log

server {
    ...
    ...
    root /wdrive/www;
    
    access_log /mnt/log/nginx/access.log ;
    error_log /mnt/log/nginx/error.log;

    error_page 400 401 402 403 404 /error4x.html;
    error_page 500 501 502 503 /error5x.html;

    location /error4x.html{
        access_log /mnt/log/nginx/error.log;
    }

    location /error5x.html{
        access_log /mnt/log/nginx/error.log;
    }

    location / {
        ....
    }
}

I have created error4x.html page in /wdrive/www.

Thanks.

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