Thanks, that did the trick exactly! Now that I have something that works, I'm off to the docs to figure out where my fundamental misunderstandings were and correct them. Very much appreciated!
-- Gary F. On Jul 12, 2013, at 1:04 PM, Maxim Dounin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 12:47:02PM -0700, Gary Foster wrote: > > [...] > >> Here's the configuration snippets I'm currently using: >> >> location = /events { >> access_log events_access.log events_format; >> expires 1s; >> try_files @proxy @proxy; >> # try_files @proxy /empty.html; >> # try_files @proxy =200; > > You are trying to use try_files incorrectly. Please read docs at > http://nginx.org/r/try_files. > >> } >> >> location @proxy { >> proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8887; >> proxy_intercept_errors on; >> access_log events_access.log events_format; >> error_page 502 =200 /empty.html; >> proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; >> } >> >> Basically, what I want is that if it logs every incoming request >> normally. If it can forward the request to the upstream proxy, >> it does so after logging it, and if it can't, it simply logs it >> and returns a 200. >> >> Is this possible and if so how? > > I would recommend something like this: > > location = /events { > access_log events_access.log events_format; > error_page 502 504 = /empty; > proxy_pass ...; > } > > location = /empty { > access_log events_access.log events_format; > return 200 ""; > } > > Note the above configuration snippet doesn't try to intercept > errors returned by upstream servers, but only handles cases when > nginx can't reach them and/or an invalid response is returned. If > upstream servers are expected to return various errors, > proxy_intercept_errors should be used, as well as additional codes > in error_page. > > -- > Maxim Dounin > http://nginx.org/en/donation.html > > _______________________________________________ > nginx mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
