nginx serving corrupt images

Dan Swaney justdan23 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 24 01:09:53 UTC 2023


Try this:

   1. At the very top of your nginx.conf file, add a definition:

           error_log  logs/error.log debug;

   2. Within your nginx install directory (where nginx.exe exists), create
   a 'logs' folder if one does not exist.
   3. Restart nginx.exe (if running as a Windows Service with NSSM, then
   restart the service).
   4. If NGINX does not start...
      - Check the 'error.log' as it will tell you if your nginx.conf has
      something weird in it that it doesn't like.
   5. If NGINX started successfully...
      - Run your test from your client browser.
      - Go back to the Server and check your 'error.log' and look for the
      URL request.
      - It will show you everything it does with routing or looking for
      files.


On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 7:22 PM Saint Michael <venefax at gmail.com> wrote:

> Now it remains broken and I have no idea how to fix it. I guess is
> caching bad copies of the pictures.
> I re-uploaded the two images.
> Kindly let me know if this is "normal"
> [image: image.png]
>
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 7:08 PM Dan Swaney <justdan23 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Now your image001.jpg is returning your home page:
>> [image: image.png]
>>
>> If I had to guess, your location routing is re-routing all sub-urls to
>> your base URL at '/' which is defaulting to your index.html (or whatever
>> you have set for your default).
>> The tip was when it returns the content type as 'text/html' instead of
>> 'image/jpg'.
>>
>> As Maxim cited, your 'location' directives are for routing URL paths and
>> not files.  Think of the external viewed URL and the internal routed URL
>> location.
>>
>> Looking at your previous cited partial nginx.conf:
>>
>>    - root /static/duc/;
>>       - I usually define this in my 'location' base section only and
>>       drop the initial '/' if it is relative to where NGINX is running.
>>          - I then don't need it in any other 'location' sections for
>>          sub-folders which have different security.
>>       - You have it defined in your 'server' section.
>>
>>
>>    - default_type  'text/html; charset=UTF-8';
>>       - I usually define this at the top of my 'http' section.
>>          - Normally I use 'default_type  application/octet-stream;'
>>       - You have it defined in your 'server' section.
>>       - I see it returning your images as 'text/html'.
>>
>>       - try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
>>    - I usually define a default 'index' if at the root and nothing else
>>       is added.
>>          - For example: 'index index.html;'
>>       - Remove the try_files like recommended earlier.
>>       - If you need to restrict access to specific folder URL mappings,
>>       then define a location of the URL mapping and add one line...
>>          - 'deny all;'
>>          - Otherwise leave it open to all sub URLs by doing nothing more
>>          but use a single 'location /' rule.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 6:15 PM Dan Swaney <justdan23 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I just ran your test and it works fine from Chrome and in Visual Studio
>>> Code:
>>>
>>> > wget https://x3x.us/index_files/image001.jpg
>>>> StatusCode        : 200
>>>> StatusCode        : 200
>>>> StatusDescription : OK
>>>> Content           : {255, 216, 255, 224...}
>>>> RawContent        : HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>>>>                     Connection: keep-alive
>>>>                     Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000;
>>>> includeSubDomains
>>>>                     Accept-Ranges: bytes
>>>>                     Content-Length: 8834
>>>>                     Content-Type: image/jpeg
>>>>                     Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 23...
>>>> Headers           : {[Connection, keep-alive],
>>>> [Strict-Transport-Security, max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains],
>>>> [Accept-Ranges, bytes],
>>>>                     [Content-Length, 8834]...}
>>>> RawContentLength  : 8834
>>>
>>>
>>> [image: image.png]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 7:36 PM Saint Michael <venefax at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> a) The error does not have a single line.
>>>> b) restarting does not fix it
>>>> c) my nginx is no acting as proxy
>>>> d) it happened twice and both times I fixed it by turning gzip off,
>>>> restarting, and back on.
>>>> e) I also noticed that I requested the image file with wget, get a full
>>>> HTML file for the whole document, but named as if it were the image file.
>>>>
>>>> wget https://x3x.us/index_files/image001.jpg
>>>> but `stat image001.jpg' showed it was the entire text HTML file.
>>>>
>>>> http {
>>>> client_max_body_size 1500M;
>>>>     include       mime.types;
>>>>    # default_type  application/octet-stream;
>>>>
>>>>     #log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local]
>>>> "$request" '
>>>>     #                  '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
>>>>     #                  '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
>>>>
>>>>     #access_log  logs/access.log  main;
>>>>     sendfile        on;
>>>>     tcp_nopush     on;
>>>>     tcp_nodelay     on;
>>>> gzip on;
>>>> gzip_vary on;
>>>> gzip_min_length 10240;
>>>> gzip_proxied expired no-cache no-store private auth;
>>>> gzip_types text/plain text/css text/xml text/javascript
>>>> application/x-javascript application/xml;
>>>> gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.";
>>>>     #keepalive_timeout  0;
>>>>     keepalive_timeout  65;
>>>>  types_hash_max_size 2048;
>>>> proxy_headers_hash_max_size 1024;
>>>> proxy_headers_hash_bucket_size 128;
>>>>         #gzip  on;
>>>>     #    error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log debug;
>>>>
>>>> error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log error;
>>>> error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log crit;
>>>>
>>>>         access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log;
>>>>
>>>> server {
>>>>         add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000;
>>>> includeSubDomains" always;
>>>>         default_type  'text/html; charset=UTF-8';
>>>>     listen 208.78.161.6:80;
>>>>     server_name x3x.us;
>>>>
>>>>     # Redirect all domains to https://x3x.us
>>>>     if ($scheme != "https") {
>>>>         return 301 https://x3x.us$request_uri;
>>>>     }
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> server {
>>>>        add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000;
>>>> includeSubDomains" always;
>>>>         default_type  'text/html; charset=UTF-8';
>>>>     listen 208.78.161.6:443 ssl;
>>>>     server_name x3x.us;
>>>>
>>>>     ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/x3x.us/fullchain.pem;
>>>>     ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/x3x.us/privkey.pem;
>>>>
>>>> root /static/duc/;
>>>>
>>>>         location / {
>>>>
>>>> try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> } #server
>>>>
>>>> } #http
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 7:17 PM Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello!
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 02:46:29PM -0500, Saint Michael wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> > It's not a misconfiguration, is a huge bug.
>>>>> > A wasted two days of sleep for something that is 100% a bug.
>>>>> > Please read here:
>>>>> >
>>>>> https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/general-discussion/homestead-nginx-serving-wrong-images-and-only-cut-in-the-middle
>>>>> > He mentions the same exact problem and also he points to
>>>>> >
>>>>> https://tech.blog.aknin.name/2011/11/04/nginxgzip-module-might-silently-corrupt-data-upon-backend-failure/
>>>>> > where the author says that Niginx will not fix it.
>>>>> > So he already tried he was rebuffed.
>>>>>
>>>>> The fun fact is that the referenced article doesn't state "will
>>>>> not fix", but rather "not a top priority".  Further, proper error
>>>>> propagation is available in nginx for about 10 years now, since
>>>>> 2013 (http://hg.nginx.org/nginx/rev/d3eab5e2df5f, nginx 1.5.3).
>>>>> Quoting CHANGES:
>>>>>
>>>>>     *) Change: now after receiving an incomplete response from a
>>>>> backend
>>>>>        server nginx tries to send an available part of the response to
>>>>> a
>>>>>        client, and then closes client connection.
>>>>>
>>>>> As long as nginx have an information about an error, it will
>>>>> preserve this information and propagate it to the client.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also note that it is only expected to make a difference if you are
>>>>> using nginx as a proxy, not to directly serve files.  And only in
>>>>> case of errors.  That is, if you are seeing the behaviour
>>>>> described, it might be a good idea to focus on the errors in the
>>>>> first place.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't think it's anyhow related though, as switching gzip off
>>>>> and back on, as seems to be "the fix" described in the first link,
>>>>> is not going to help with anything.  The important part is likely
>>>>> "restarted the server", so I would rather assume that "the server"
>>>>> (not sure if it refers to nginx or the whole server) was using an
>>>>> incorrect configuration and/or was out of some resources, and
>>>>> restart fixed it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Summing the above, if you want to find out what goes wrong in your
>>>>> case - you may want to provide more details.  If you don't, nobody
>>>>> will be able to do it, unfortunately.
>>>>>
>>>>> The most basic thing I would recommend in the first place is to
>>>>> look into nginx error log, it is likely to contain important
>>>>> information if something goes wrong.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Maxim Dounin
>>>>> http://mdounin.ru/
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