try_files problem

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 01:43:57AM -0400, holstebm wrote:

> I can't get the following to work and, after reading and re-reading all the documentation I could find, am not sure if this is a bug or a restriction.
> 
> try_files @nocache @cache;
> 
> The thought here is @nocache will succeed if a cookie is present and @cache will succeed if not.

Try_files doesn't work this way.  It checks *files* and uses 
fallback in no one was found:

try_files /file1 /file2 @fallback;

Looks like

http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpCoreModule#try_files 

has wrong description and should be re-translated from scratch. 
For a while use original documentation in Russian:

http://sysoev.ru/nginx/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#try_files

(try google translate if you have problems with Russian).

Maxim Dounin

> 
> The problem is, the first argument seems to be ignored.  I say that because, if I change JUST the try_files without changing any other lines in the configuration I get two different results.  In each case, the final argument in the try_files is always reached...cache displaying correctly when there is no cookie and a blank page if there is a cookie while try_files @cache @nocache displays correctly when there is a cookie but a blank page if there is not.
> 
> So is this a restriction or a bug on using internal locations in try_files?
> 
> Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,4504,4504#msg-4504
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