x-accel-redirect and status codes

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 02:32:46PM -0700, Brian Moran wrote:

> We'd like nginx to be able to return a 404 error page using  
> x-accel-redirect, BUT also have the status code returned to be 404; is  
> this possible?

I don't actually understand reason - if you want 404 content to be 
returned by frontend, you may use proxy_intercept_errors.

But if you really want to, try something like this:

    location = /redirect-404-here {
        error_page  404  /404.html;
        return 404;
    }

    location = /404.html {
        # here actual content should be returned
        # it will have 404 status
        ...
    }

and return "X-Accel-Redirect: /redirect-404-here".  If you want 
the same for multiple different files - it's easy too, just use 
variables in error_page uri.

Maxim Dounin