Absent FastCGI process blocking static files?

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 09:11:15PM -0700, jlist9 wrote:

> Hi, I have a server that's configured to talk to a Python fastcgi process,
> a PHP fastcgi process, and also load some static files from the html directory.
> 
> I find that when the backend servers are up, nginx loads the static files fine.
> However, if the Python process is not running, nginx fails to load static files
> (browser times out.) However, if the PHP process is not running but the Python
> process is running, nginx loads static files fine. I'm assuming this has to
> do with the location expression, I'm using "/" for Python back-end and
> "~ \.php$" for PHP back-end. But the question is, is this the expected
> behavior? If a back-end process is down, should it affect all static files
> as well?

No.

Maxim Dounin