More Descriptive 502 Errors

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 03:44:45PM -0400, abstein2 wrote:

> Every so often I see a handful of errors in my error log, such as:
> 
> connect() failed (113: No route to host)
> upstream timed out (110: Connection timed out)
> upstream sent too big header while reading response header from upstream
> 
> etc.
> 
> in each case, when I log the $status variable in nginx, each just shows as a
> 502 error. Is there any way to retrieve what the actual error is (via
> variable?) without having to check the error log or is that the only source
> for this information?

The error log is the only place where error details are logged.

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Maxim Dounin
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