0.7.61: error_page 404 woes

[Igor Sysoev]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 07:04:09PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote:

> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having a problem with the error_page directive.
> 
> What I want is to redirect people who try to access a nonexistent page
> to the home page of the site. Following
> http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpCoreModule#error_page , I configured
> 
> error_page	404	/;
> 
> But this statement had no effect. I had to re-write the statement as
> 
> error_page	404	http://$server_name/;
> 
> to get the desired effect, but don't quite understand, why.

Because the first statement does an internal redirect to /,
while the second one does an external redirect (302).


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