rewrite rule

[Igor Clark]

Hi Maxim,

On 20 Jul 2008, at 20:58, Maxim Dounin wrote:

> And, BTW, I think you should use named locations instead.  Just  
> write something like:
>
>    location / {
>        error_page 404  = @fallback;
>        ...
>    }
>    location @fallback {
>        proxy_pass ...;
>        ...
>    }
>
> You don't actually need all this rewrite stuff. :)

I've tried several times to use named locations in exactly this  
fashion with PHP/FastCGI backends, but experienced show-stopping  
problems using POST. POSTing data through these locations just  
wouldn't work properly, either throwing 405 errors or, after applying  
some configuration changes (static post), simply hanging.

I posted to the list a couple of times but didn't get any response -  
the most recent was "Posting to FastCGI in named locations" on 15 May (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.nginx.english/5036 
). It's frustrating because I can see how much better the named  
locations are but have been unable to use them because of this problem.

Do you have any idea what might be the cause?

Many thanks,
Igor

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