0.7.61: error_page 404 woes

[Igor Sysoev]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 08:48:29PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 13.07.2009 at 22:22:25 +0400, Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 07:04:09PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote:
> > > 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).
> 
> thanks for the quick answer, but I don't quite understand:
> 
> I already assumed that the second would cause an external redirect, but
> why the first statement would not lead to an internal rewrite of the
> URI and then try that through the remainder of the configuration, I
> don't see.

What do you see in the first case ? You should see main page with
unchanged nonexistent URI in browser.

> I mean, the documentation suggests that "error_page 404 /somepage.html"
> should work, and I don't see that much of a difference.


-- 
Igor Sysoev
http://sysoev.ru/en/