How to get a 404 logged with try_files?

[Igor Sysoev]

On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 10:22:50AM -0400, monster wrote:
> Hi! Just started with Nginx after reading it reached 1.0.
> Congratulation!
> 
> I'm trying to get my test site to return a "missing image" icon when an
> image is missing, but have a 404 logged so I know I messed up something.
> I want to specify the images name without file extensions, in case I
> move some from PNG to JPG, or the other way around. My problem is that
> try_files doc says last path MUST exist. I would like last path to be
> $uri and cause a 404, not a 500. Tried using error_page to convert 500
> to 404, but did not have any effect. Thanks for any advice!
> 
> location ~ ^/img/[^\.]*$ {
>     try_files $uri.png $uri.jpg $uri.gif $uri;
>     error_page  500 =404	/img/missing;
> }
> 
> location /img/ {
>     error_page  404		/img/missing;
> }
> 
> location = /img/missing {
>     rewrite .* /img/icon/missing.png;
> }

location /img/ {
    error_page  404   /img/icon/missing.png;

    location ~ ^/img/[^\.]*$ {
        try_files $uri.png $uri.jpg $uri.gif $uri =404;
    }
}

location = /img/icon/missing.png {
    # nothing
}


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Igor Sysoev