Nginx+varnish & delivered error_page

[Johan Bergström]

Hey,
thought I'd chip in since I also use Varnish over nginx for caching (at least some parts)

On 28 jul 2010, at 14.04, Igor Sysoev wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 06:13:32AM -0400, revirii wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> we have a little problem with, as the topic says, "Nginx+varnish &
>> delivered error_page". We have nginx in front as proxy, behind there's a
>> varnish cashing stuff from a tomcat backend.
>> 
>> Sometimes the tomcat crashes and delivers 503 to varnish; varnish sends
>> 503 to nginx, nginx sends it to the client (browser, fiddler, ...). I've
>> created some 50x error page which is delivered via nginx:
>> 
>> [code]
>>        error_page 500 501 502 503 504 505 /500.htm;
>> 
>>        # location for error pages
>>        location = /500.htm {
>>            root /var/www/errorpages;
>>            internal;
>>        }
>> [/code]
>> 
>> It worked as long as varnish wasn't there, but now with varnish i can't
>> see my own error page anymore. Instead the default varnish 503 page (i
>> think it's some html code; but with correct 503 status code) is
>> delivered. Does anyone know why this happens and has an idea how to
>> prevent the varnish page to be delivered in favor of the nginx page?
> 
> BTW, why do you prefer to use varnish instead of nginx built-in cache ?

The main reason I use varnish is wildcard purging.


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