POST not allowed (was Re: Location problems)

[Igor Clark]

Thanks Igor. I just tried this and it allows it through, but it  
appears to the upstream as a GET. It needs to be a POST as it has  
multipart/form-data. Any thoughts?

cheers
Igor

On 8 Mar 2008, at 20:06, Igor Sysoev wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 05:41:21PM +0000, Igor Clark wrote:
>
>> The following configuration is giving me 405 Not Allowed errors  
>> when I
>> try to POST to any URI.
>>
>> I'm guessing that it thinks the URLs are static, but I don't know  
>> why.
>
> Try to change
>
> -	error_page	404	=	@...;
> + 	error_page	404 405	=	@...;
>
>> Example URI is /admin/clips/edit/63 - but I've tried posting to /  
>> with
>> the same result.
>>
>> Nothing is written to the error_log, even on "info" or "notice",
>> though the 405 appears in access_log.
>>
>> I've tried it with fastcgi_intercept_errors and recursive_error_pages
>> both off, with the same result.
>>
>> Any ideas on how to fix it would be very welcome.
>> Thanks very much!
>> Igor
>>
>>
>> 	server {
>> 		listen		80;
>> 		server_name	my.web.site;
>>
>> 		access_log	/path/to/logs/access.log	main;
>> 		error_log	/path/to/logs/error.log		info;
>>
>> 		root		/path/to/public;
>>
>> 		# enable nginx to serve custom error pages
>> 		# on receiving HTTP error codes from back-end
>> 		fastcgi_intercept_errors	on;
>> 		recursive_error_pages		on;
>>
>> 		# show custom error pages
>> 		error_page	403		/403.html;
>> 		error_page	404		/404.html;
>> 		error_page	500		/500.html;
>>
>> 		# deny public access to frontend script
>> 		location /frontend.php	{
>> 			internal;
>> 		}
>>
>> 		# deny public access to admin script
>> 		location /admin.php	{
>> 			internal;
>> 		}
>>
>> 		# serve standard files standardly.
>> 		# if file not found, fall back to php app using (rewrite if
>> neceessary) URL
>> 		location / {
>> 			rewrite	^/$				
>> 			/financethemes/index;
>> 			rewrite	^/speakers/((?!video).+)/?$	
>> 			/speakers/video/$1;
>> 			rewrite	^/financethemes/((?!video|index).+)/?$
>> 			/financethemes/video/ $1;
>> 			rewrite	^/transcripts/(speaker|theme)/(.+)/?$
>> 			/transcripts/view/ $1/$2;
>>
>> 			error_page	404 =	@phpapp;
>> 		}
>
> You do not need these rewrite's, use location's.
> The configuration is bigger, but it's much clearer and so it's  
> scaleable:
> you can easy add new locations without being afraid to break some  
> rewrite.
>
> However, you may need to use some rewrite's in these locations if  
> you need
> to rewrite URI to pass into "location  ~ \.flv$" with changed URI to  
> match
> common root.
>
> 		location = / {
> 			index		index;
> 	 		root		/path/to/public/financethemes;
> 			error_page	404 =	@phpapp;
> 		}
>
> 		location / {
> 			error_page	404 =	@phpapp;
> 		}
>
> 		location /speakers/ {
> 	 		alias		/path/to/public/speakers/video/;
> 			error_page	404 =	@phpapp;
> 		}
>
> 		location /speakers/video/ {
> 			error_page	404 =	@phpapp;
> 		}
>
> 		location /financethemes/ {
> 	 		alias		/path/to/public/financethemes/video/;
> 			error_page	404 =	@phpapp;
> 		}
>
> 		location /financethemes/video/ {
> 			error_page	404 =	@phpapp;
> 		}
>
> 		location /transcripts/theme/ {
> 	 		alias		/path/to/public/transcripts/view/theme/;
> 			error_page	404 =	@phpapp;
> 		}
>
> 		location /transcripts/speaker/ {
> 	 		alias		/path/to/public/transcripts/view/speaker/;
> 			error_page	404 =	@phpapp;
> 		}
>
>> 		# serve not found urls using /frontend.php script
>> 		location @phpapp {
>> 			fastcgi_pass	127.0.0.1:8888;
>> 			fastcgi_param	SCRIPT_FILENAME	
>> 			$document_root/frontend.php;
>> 			fastcgi_param	QUERY_STRING	 CONTROL_PATH=$uri;
>> 			include		conf/fastcgi_params
>> 		}
>>
>> 		# IP-restrict anything under /admin
>> 		location /admin {
>> 			allow	1.2.3.4;
>> 			deny	all;
>>
>> 			rewrite	^/admin/?$	/admin/clips/all;
>> 			
>> 			error_page	404 =	@adminapp;
>> 		}
>>
>> 		# serve admin app using /admin.php;
>> 		location @adminapp {
>> 			fastcgi_pass	127.0.0.1:8888;
>> 			fastcgi_param	SCRIPT_FILENAME	
>> 			$document_root/admin.php;
>> 			fastcgi_param	QUERY_STRING	 CONTROL_PATH=$uri;
>> 			include		conf/fastcgi_params;
>> 		}
>>
>> 		# use the FLV module for flv files
>> 		location ~ \.flv$ {
>> 			flv;
>> 		}
>>
>> 		# deny access to .svn dirs
>> 		location ~ /\.svn {
>> 			deny	all;
>> 		}
>> 	}
>>
>
> -- 
> Igor Sysoev
> http://sysoev.ru/en/
>

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