error_page

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 05:58:09PM +0200, witekfl at gazeta.pl wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 07:21:19PM +0400, Igor Sysoev wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 05:10:59PM +0200, witekfl Gazeta.pl wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > probably better place for these questions would be nginx-users, but I ask
> > > here.
> > > I want to serve static pages as error codes but without changing the error
> > > code.
> > > 
> > > Now if:
> > > error_page 404 http://blablabla.com/404.html
> > > There is 302 and next 200 OK
> > > I want 404.
> > > 
> > > error_page 404 /404.html
> > > it works, but:
> > > if there is:
> > > location = /404.html {
> > > internal;
> > > }
> > > then cannot be a normal location
> > > location = /404.html {
> > > },
> > > so request such as http://blabla1.com/404.html won't work.
> > > 
> > > error_page 404 @404;
> > > location @404 {
> > >    root /blabla;
> > >    index 404.html;
> > > }
> > > doesn't work either
> > > 
> > > There must be some way to achieve it.
> > > How?
> > 
> > I do not understand the problem. With this configuration
> > 
> > error_page  404 /404.html;
> > locaiton = /404.html {
> >     internal;
> >     root /path/to/page;
> > }
> > 
> > you will get 404 code with /404.html body for both requests:
> > 
> > http://blabla1.com/non-existant.html
> > http://blabla1.com/404.html
> 
> Yes, but I want:
> http://blabla1.com/404.html to be 200 OK and serve http://blabla1.com/404.html
> not /path/to/page/404.html

Something like this:

    error_page 404 @notfound;

    location @notfound {
        rewrite ^ /404.html break;
        root /path/to/page;
    }

should do the trick.

Maxim Dounin