is there a way to avoid output body when a request is calling for a vhost that not exist?

[Igor Sysoev]

On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 12:38:01PM +0800, tOmasEn wrote:

> Great.  Thanks
> 
> But then another question popup:
> 
> When use proxy_pass , if the backend server use above technique. The
> front-end server will return 502 error and error message html.
> 
> Is there an easy way do avoid such output? :| might not be I guess. It's a
> bit of tricky

You should use this server at frontend.

As to your question:

     error_page  502  = @444;

     location @444 { return 444; }


> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Igor Sysoev <igor at sysoev.ru> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 01:27:31AM +0800, tOmasEn wrote:
> >
> > > is there a way to avoid output body when a request is calling for a vhost
> > > that not exist?
> > >
> > > Normally when user send a request to nginx server for a server name
> > doesn't
> > > exits on nginx server, nginx will reply "Bad Hostname".
> > >
> > > If you (me) add following lines :
> > >
> > >         server {
> > >             listen       80;
> > >              server_name  _;
> > >              location / {
> > >                  return 404;
> > >              }
> > >        }
> > >
> > > some cases of nginx return 404, some return 403.
> > >
> > > And in all cases, nginx return a html error page with error message in
> > body.
> > >
> > > Is there a way just return 404 and do not return any more error message
> > when
> > > user request for a server name which does not exist? OR EVEN BETTER, just
> > > don't return anything like the server is dead to those request?
> > >
> > > Thanks for any suggestion. I love nginx.
> >
> >
> > http://nginx.org/docs/http/request_processing.html#how_to_prevent_wrong_server_names
> >
> >
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