Not sure if it's passing to the proxy properly

[Igor Sysoev]

On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 12:30:12PM +0300, Maxim Dounin wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 02:43:58AM -0500, James Matthews wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am passing my requests like this
> >  if ( -f $request_filename){
> >         expires 30d;
> >         break;
> > }
> >         proxy_pass         http://127.0.0.1:20000;
> > 
> > However Apache is still serving everything (images included). How can I get
> > it to move only through nginx (for images and other files).
> 
> Try this:
> 
>     location / {
>         try_files $uri @fallback;
>         expires 30d;
>     }
> 
>     location @fallback {
>         proxy_pass  http://127.0.0.1:20000;
>     }

And do not forget about "root". Probably this was a cause why

 if (-f $request_filename) {

did not work. However, anyway you should use try_files instead of "if".


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