Default_server catch all block not working

[António P. P. Almeida]

On 24 Jan 2012 15h26 WET, nginx-forum at nginx.us wrote:

> Hi, getting quite desperate at the moment about this.
>
> I have a server serving several subdomains; actually proxying'em to
> apache2. So I have main nginx vhost file with all server_name's
> added.  Such server names match the defined ServerName's and
> ServerAlias'es of Apache.  Beside, I have one more file to define a
> default_server catch all block like follows
>
> server {
> listen       80 default_server;
> server_name  _;
> error_log       /var/log/nginx/000default-error.log error;
> root /var/www/forvo.com/_templates;
> error_page 404 /404.html;
> location / {
> #return       444;
> return 404;
> }
> location = /404.html {
> internal;
> }
> #rewrite .* http://myfaultysubdomain.com permanent;
> }

AFAICT there's nothing here that should cause the 503s. Do you have
any limits set, be it connection or rate limit?

--- appa





>
> As soon as I enable this file, everything works as expected,
> however, in less than one minute (my site is always being visited),
> all requests (good subdomains and bad subdomains as well) start to
> get 503 response.  No log at all seems to change when this happens.
>
> Any clue to what may be happening pleeeeeease ......it's been hours,
> during days, trying to figure out what the h@$!! is going on
>
> Posted at Nginx Forum:
> http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,221572,221572#msg-221572
>
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