try_files problem

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:59:15PM +0400, Maxim Dounin wrote:

> 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. 

Just a note: it looks like description was changed to wrong one by 
Merlincorey at 2009-07-14.  I've reverted this change and at least 
it doesn't plain wrong now.

Note that original documentation has much more examples and covers 
a bit more features of try_files (testing directories, ability to 
return error code in 0.7.51+).  So we still need good translation 
here.

Maxim Dounin

> 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
> > 
> >