Weird problem cannot standup nginx on 443 ipv4

[Julian Brown]

I guess that is an unfortunate accident in this case.   But man it was
frustrating, I even had some co workers who are nginx experts and they
missed it to.

It is certainly embarrassing.

Thanx for your reply.

Julian

On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 10:11 AM Francis Daly <francis at daoine.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 08:08:47PM -0500, Julian Brown wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> Well done in spotting that -- it has come up before, but obviously wasn't
> something that someone noticed quickly enough this time.
>
> > I finally figured it out, and I cannot believe it passed a syntax
> checker.
>
> It passed a syntax check because it is syntactically valid.
>
> > server {
> >     server_name learngigs.com www.learngigs.com
> >
> >     listen 443;
> >     listen [::]:443;
>
> It is inconvenient in this case; but "server_name" accepts a list
> of whitespace-separated arguments. Your "server_name" directive has
> four arguments.
>
> It's not what you intended, but the computer (in general) does not care
> what you intended; it cares what you wrote.
>
> > I did not have a semi colon after the server name directive.   The syntax
> > checker said it was fine, so I do not know what it was trying to do.
>
> I suspect that this won't be "fixed", because the amount of special-casing
> required in the code to handle it is probably not worth the effort to
> anyone to write.
>
> For example: a week ago, you would have liked if someone had previously
> come up with a reliable and obviously-documented way that this specific
> problem could be auto-avoided or -alerted. Today, you probably don't
> need that work done, because you will remember to check for semi-colon
> if you ever see the same problem again.
>
> Great that you found and fixed the problem in the config!
>
> Cheers,
>
>         f
> --
> Francis Daly        francis at daoine.org
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