Custom error_page basic config problem.

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 07:02:41PM -0300, Agus wrote:

> Hi fellows,
> 
> I was having trouble creating a custom error_page. Here's the simple test
> config i did:
> 
> server_name www.test1.com.ar;
> 
> error_log logs/www.test1.com.ar.http.error.log debug;
> access_log logs/www.test1.com.ar.http.access.log main;
> 
> root /usr/local/www/www.test1;
> 
>     location / {
> # Esto es para simular el geoip con un if.
> if ( $remote_addr = "10.24.18.2" ) {
> error_page 401 /custom/404b.html;
> return 401;
> }
>     }
> 
> 
> With that, i only got the nginx default error page. After turning on debug
> i saw that when nginx goes to fetch the error_page mentioned it searches in
> location / so it denies and send me the default error.

This is expected behaviour - you return 401 once again during 
error_page handling, and hence get builtin error.

> Now i added a location like this
> 
>     location = /custom/404b.html {
> internal;
>     }
> 
> 
> Which made it work.

This is how it's usually handled - via separate location without a 
check to deny access.

> My question is is this is OK. If my solution is the correct one or perhaps
> theres a better one. Also, this test is easy cause its local, but i want to
> implemtn this in a proxy_pass situation. Probably the intercept_error..
> 
> Thanks for any hints you can give.

Separate location for handling errors is fine.


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