error_page and named locations

[Igor Sysoev]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:09:56AM +0000, cynix wrote:

> I'd also like your opinion on another way to do the same thing.
> 
>  location ~ \.php$ {
>   set $script_filename $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
>   if (!-f $script_filename) {
>    set $script_filename $document_root/index.php;
>   }
>   fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:1234;
>   include        fastcgi_params;
>   fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME $script_filename;
>  }
> 
> Is this a better way to handle requests to non-existent PHP files? This way
> nginx takes care of checking if the file exists, and if it doesn't exist the
> original request is not passed to FastCGI at all. Only 1 request is passed to
> FastCGI, but with the addition of file existence checking. Will this yield
> better performance than 2 requests to FastCGI?

I do not recommend to use if/rewrite in nginx as they have some
implementation issues. Nevertheless, your way is better than passing
2 requests to FastCGI.

I'm going to implement the non_existant_request_file directive to use
in similar configurations:

    location ~\.php$ {
        non_existant_request_file  @drupal;

        fastcgi_pass  ..
    }

This directive test a request file existance before passing a request
to fastcgi/proxy.

Could someone suggest better name ?


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