New to nginx

[Ivan L.]

Thanks.

I know it's strange, I've found most of them on the internet, and on the English wiki documentation, and mix them together. After my first problem was solved, that lead me to another problems. Perhaps that's because of config file is confusing.

>> if(!-e $request_filename) {
>>   rewrite ^/search$ /index.php?where=search last;
>>   rewrite ^/posts/([0-9])$ /index.php?posts=$1 last;
>>     
>> break;
>> }

> Why do you use "^/search$" ?

I use this for the queries like "search?q=search_string"

>>  location /about {
>>    if($request_method !~ GET) {
>>      return 405;
>>    }
>>    if(!-e $request_filename) {
>>      expires max;
>>      rewrite ^/about$ /index.php?where=about break;
>>    }
>>  }

>What do you expect here ?

I wanted only GET|HEAD availability on some pages, and only POST on some pages.

>>  location /contact {
>>    if($request_method !~ ^(GET|POST)$) {
>>      return 405;
>>    }
>>    if(!-e $request_filename) {
>>      expires max;
>>      rewrite ^/contact$ /index.php?where=contact break;
>>    }
>>  }

> What do you expect here ?

That suppose to be a page that only accepts POST.

>  location /downlods/ {
>>    rewrite ^downloads/(.*)$ /downloads/$1 break;
>>    return 403;
>>  }

> What do you expect here ?

That's downloads folder, I wanted to disable directory listing.


I wanted only GET|HEAD availability on some pages, and only POST on some pages. But my config file didn't work so I changed it as follows, but the problem is on some pages(about, and contact pages) I see the php source code(browser downloads the php source code), and contact_ajax page returns 405 even if the method is POST.



server {
  listen 80;
  client_max_body_size 50M;
  client_body_buffer_size 128k;
  charset utf-8;
 
  root /var/www/myweb;
  index index.php index.html index.htm;
 
  access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
 
  location / {
    if ($request_method !~ ^(GET|HEAD)$ ) {
      return 405;
    }
    if (-f $request_filename) {
      break;
    }
    if (-d $request_filename) {
      break;
    }
    if (!-e $request_filename) {
      rewrite ^/search$ /index.php?where=search last;
      rewrite ^/about$ /index.php?where=about last;
      rewrite ^/contact$  /index.php?where=contact last;

      rewrite ^/posts/([0-9])$ /index.php?posts=$1 last;
     
      break;
    }
  }
  
  location /contact_ajax {
    if ($request_method !~ ^(POST)$ ) {
      return 405;
    }
    if (!-e $request_filename) {
      rewrite ^/contact_ajax$ /index.php?where=contact_js break;
    }
  }
 
  location /downloads/ {
    rewrite ^downloads/(.*)$ /downloads/$1 break;
    return 403;
  }
 
  location ~* ^.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|css|js)$ {
    expires 30d;
  }
 
  error_page  500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
  location = /50x.html {
    root  /var/www/myweb;
  }
   
  location ~ \.php$ {
    fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:9000;
    fastcgi_index  index.php;
    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /var/www/myweb$fastcgi_script_name;
    include fastcgi_params;
  }
 
}






----- Original Message ----
From: Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru>
To: nginx at sysoev.ru
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 11:52:53 PM
Subject: Re: New to nginx

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 04:21:56AM -0800, Ivan L. wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to nginx, and I'm trying to configure it but I've some problems. I use Ubuntu 8.10, and I installed nginx 0.6.32(apt-get install nginx)
> 
> The problems I see;
> 
> - unknown directive "if($request_method"
> 
> If I remove these statements, the error I receive
> 
> - unknown directive "if(-d"
> 
> When I remove if(-d) statement, the error I receive;
> 
> - unknown directive "if(!-e)"

As it was already said, you need a space between "if" and "(":

     if (

However, your configuraiton is very strange.

> I've tried to configure it as described in the English wiki, and some blogs I've seen but I couldn't solve the problems. Can anyone help me?
> 
> Here's my /etc/nginx/sites-availabe/default config file;
> 
> 
> server {
>   listen 80;
>   client_max_body_size 50M;
>   client_body_buffer_size 128k;
>   charset utf-8;
>  
>   root /var/www/myweb;
>   index index.php index.html index.htm;
>  
>   access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
>  
>   location / {
>     if($request_method !~ GET) {
>       return 405;
>     }
>     if(-f $request_filename) {
>       break;
>     }
>     if(-d $request_filename) {
>       break;
>     }
>     if(!-e $request_filename) {
>       rewrite ^/search$ /index.php?where=search last;
>       rewrite ^/posts/([0-9])$ /index.php?posts=$1 last;
>      
>       break;
>     }
>   }

Why do you use "^/search$" ?

>   location /about {
>     if($request_method !~ GET) {
>       return 405;
>     }
>     if(!-e $request_filename) {
>       expires max;
>       rewrite ^/about$ /index.php?where=about break;
>     }
>   }

What do you expect here ?

>   location /contact {
>     if($request_method !~ ^(GET|POST)$) {
>       return 405;
>     }
>     if(!-e $request_filename) {
>       expires max;
>       rewrite ^/contact$ /index.php?where=contact break;
>     }
>   }

What do you expect here ?

>   location /downlods/ {
>     rewrite ^downloads/(.*)$ /downloads/$1 break;
>     return 403;
>   }

What do you expect here ?

>   location ~* ^.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|css|js)$ {
>     expires 30d;
>   }
>  
>   error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
>   location = /50x.html {
>     root   /var/www/myweb;
>   }
>    
>   location ~ \.php$ {
>     fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
>     fastcgi_index  index.php;
>     fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /var/www/myweb$fastcgi_script_name;
>     include fastcgi_params;
>   }
>  
> }


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