Suppress "no index file" errors when autoindex on

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 04:42:01PM +0200, Nikolaos Milas wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Can we suppress errors of the form:
> 
> 2013/11/19 10:14:58 [error] 21848#0: *49602
> "/path/to/web/root/DATA/2013/320/index.php" is not found (2: No such
> file or directory), client: ::ffff:xxx.xxx.154.69, server:
> www.example.com, request: "GET /location/path/2013/320/ HTTP/1.1",
> host: "www.example.com"
> 
> ...when Autoindex is on? In these cases, we want clients to browse
> the directory for data and there is simply no index page available.

Normal use of index files (as per the "index" directive, see 
http://nginx.org/r/index) doesn't cause such error messages to 
appear.  Instead, index module is silently skipped, and autoindex 
starts working.

Most likely you are using some rewrite instead, or something like 
this.

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