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[Igor Sysoev]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 05:09:33PM +0400, Maxim Dounin wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 08:03:23AM -0300, Marcos Neves wrote:
> 
> >your solution is DRY, but I?m not sure if it?s right to send a 404 code, 
> >is it?
> 
> Feel free to use 
> 
>    error_page 404 = html/favicon.ico;
> 
> instead (note the '=').
> 
> See http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpCoreModule#error_page for 
> details.

No, html/favicon.ico will not work. It should be redirected to something like
/html/favicon.ico, and then some location /html/... should be described.

> Maxim Dounin
> 
> >
> >On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Cliff Wells <cliff at develix.com> wrote:
> >>On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 17:16 -0300, Marcos Neves wrote:
> >>>I?m doing this to show a default favicon.ico, when the site doesn?t have 
> >>>one:
> >>>
> >>>       location = /favicon.ico {
> >>>          if (!-f $request_filename) {
> >>>            rewrite ^.*$ /favicon.ico.default;
> >>>          }
> >>>        }
> >>>        location = /favicon.ico.default {
> >>>          internal;
> >>>          alias html/favicon.ico;
> >>>          break;
> >>>        }
> >>>
> >>>But I think it?s to ugly and far from DRY.
> >>>Is there any way to short this code?
> >>
> >>Not sure how "DRY" applies in this context...
> >>
> >>What you probably want is something like this:
> >>
> >>location = /favicon.ico {
> >>  error_page 404 html/favicon.ico;
> >>}
> >>
> >>Cliff
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >-- 
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> >+55 44 9918-8488
> >

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