mmagic word in nginx?

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 11:47:40PM +0100, Daniel Epi wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm using nginx 0.6.32 on my server and I ran into misterious an issue.
> One of my client is istalled the Drupal CMS and noticed that one part of
> the portal is not working.
> 
> When you enter somedomain/mypage it works great, but when you try to
> reach somedomain/naptar nginx gives a 404 error.
> 
> I've managed to reproduce the issue using the same rewrite settings:
> location / {
>         root /home/{domain_here}/httpdocs;
>         index index.php index.html;
> 
>         if (!-e $request_filename) {
>             rewrite  ^/(.*)$  /index.php?q=$1  last;
>             break;
>         }
>     }
> 
> It strange that the error only occures when I try to reach
> somedomain/naptar
> The word naptar - calendar in Hungarian BTW - does not exist in my
> config file. There is no file/directory by this name in the server.
> 
> Any idea?

Probably something like 

    location ~ ^(.*).(jpg|gif|tar|gz|...)$ {
        ...
    }

exists in your config file to catch static.  As you can see the 
above regexp is wrong (missing "\", not even talking about 
unneeded "^(.*)") and will catch "/<somethig>tar" as well as 
"/<something>.tar".

Maxim Dounin