New to nginx

ileider · February 28, 2009, 1:30pm

Hi,

I’m new to nginx, and I’m trying to configure it but I’ve some problems.
I use Ubuntu 8.10, and I installed nginx 0.6.32(apt-get install nginx)

The problems I see;

unknown directive “if($request_method”

If I remove these statements, the error I receive

unknown directive “if(-d”

When I remove if(-d) statement, the error I receive;

unknown directive “if(!-e)”

I’ve tried to configure it as described in the English wiki, and some
blogs I’ve seen but I couldn’t solve the problems. Can anyone help me?

Here’s my /etc/nginx/sites-availabe/default config file;

server {
listen 80;
client_max_body_size 50M;
client_body_buffer_size 128k;
charset utf-8;

root /var/www/myweb;
index index.php index.html index.htm;

access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;

location / {
if($request_method !~ GET) {
return 405;
}
if(-f $request_filename) {
break;
}
if(-d $request_filename) {
break;
}
if(!-e $request_filename) {
rewrite ^/search$ /index.php?where=search last;
rewrite ^/posts/([0-9])$ /index.php?posts=$1 last;

  break;
}

}

location /about {
if($request_method !~ GET) {
return 405;
}
if(!-e $request_filename) {
expires max;
rewrite ^/about$ /index.php?where=about break;
}
}

location /contact {
if($request_method !~ ^(GET|POST)$) {
return 405;
}
if(!-e $request_filename) {
expires max;
rewrite ^/contact$ /index.php?where=contact break;
}
}

location /downlods/ {
rewrite ^downloads/(.*)$ /downloads/$1 break;
return 403;
}

location ~* ^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|css|js)$ {
expires 30d;
}

error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /var/www/myweb;
}

location ~ .php$ {
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/myweb$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}

}

ileider · February 28, 2009, 1:45pm

Hello

unknown directive “if($request_method”

you need a space between if and (
eg:

if ($request_method …

xav

ileider · February 28, 2009, 2:05pm

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 04:21:56AM -0800, Ivan L. wrote:

unknown directive “if(-d”

When I remove if(-d) statement, the error I receive;

unknown directive “if(!-e)”

As it was already said, you need a space between “if” and “(”:

 if (

However, your configuraiton is very strange.

  break;
}
Why do you use “^/search$” ?

location /about {
if($request_method !~ GET) {
return 405;
}
if(!-e $request_filename) {
expires max;
rewrite ^/about$ /index.php?where=about break;
}
}

What do you expect here ?

location /contact {
if($request_method !~ ^(GET|POST)$) {
return 405;
}
if(!-e $request_filename) {
expires max;
rewrite ^/contact$ /index.php?where=contact break;
}
}

What do you expect here ?

location /downlods/ {
rewrite ^downloads/(.*)$ /downloads/$1 break;
return 403;
}

What do you expect here ?

ileider · February 28, 2009, 4:03pm

You may find some help in this thread from about three weeks back:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.nginx.english/9602

ileider · February 28, 2009, 3:46pm

In apache there is a mod_log_mysql, which will log apache log files to
MySQL?

Is there a method to do this with nginx?

If not, before I install, how can an administrator log the log files in
nginx to a database?

thank you.

ileider · February 28, 2009, 11:13pm

Hmm
http://snippets.aktagon.com/snippets/247-Logging-nginx-to-remote-loghost-with-syslog-ng-

Is a neat idea, but I would think with hundreds of requests per second
coming from what could be multiple servers that the syslog daemon
would eventually become so busy that you’d miss legitimate messages
too.

I wonder if you could setup two syslog instances?

Right now I do this:

log_format traffic
‘$http_host|$bytes_sent|$time_local|$remote_addr|$request_uri’;
access_log /var/log/nginx/traffic traffic;

Then I have a nightly cronjob which goes to each server, scps the file
locally, parses them and essentially combines them in the process
(since I have multiple webservers) and then can do statistics on them.
I actually don’t load the entire thing into SQL either (I used to)

This is the script I run once a night at like 12:30am, it seems to
give me good enough metrics:
http://mikehost.com/~mike/tmp/runstats.php.txt

Ideally something like a syslog to catch all the servers might be even
better but I’m worried the load on a syslog daemon…
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:53 AM, Nick P. [email protected]
wrote:

If not, before I install, how can an administrator log the log files in
nginx to a database?

thank you.

mm

ileider · March 1, 2009, 6:13am

Thanks.

I know it’s strange, I’ve found most of them on the internet, and on the
English wiki documentation, and mix them together. After my first
problem was solved, that lead me to another problems. Perhaps that’s
because of config file is confusing.

if(!-e $request_filename) {
rewrite ^/search$ /index.php?where=search last;
rewrite ^/posts/([0-9])$ /index.php?posts=$1 last;

break;
}

Why do you use “^/search$” ?

I use this for the queries like “search?q=search_string”

location /about {
if($request_method !~ GET) {
return 405;
}
if(!-e $request_filename) {
expires max;
rewrite ^/about$ /index.php?where=about break;
}
}

What do you expect here ?

I wanted only GET|HEAD availability on some pages, and only POST on some
pages.

location /contact {
if($request_method !~ ^(GET|POST)$) {
return 405;
}
if(!-e $request_filename) {
expires max;
rewrite ^/contact$ /index.php?where=contact break;
}
}

What do you expect here ?

That suppose to be a page that only accepts POST.

location /downlods/ {

rewrite ^downloads/(.*)$ /downloads/$1 break;
return 403;
}

What do you expect here ?

That’s downloads folder, I wanted to disable directory listing.

I wanted only GET|HEAD availability on some pages, and only POST on some
pages. But my config file didn’t work so I changed it as follows, but
the problem is on some pages(about, and contact pages) I see the php
source code(browser downloads the php source code), and contact_ajax
page returns 405 even if the method is POST.

server {
listen 80;
client_max_body_size 50M;
client_body_buffer_size 128k;
charset utf-8;

root /var/www/myweb;
index index.php index.html index.htm;

access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;

location / {
if ($request_method !~ ^(GET|HEAD)$ ) {
return 405;
}
if (-f $request_filename) {
break;
}
if (-d $request_filename) {
break;
}
if (!-e $request_filename) {
rewrite ^/search$ /index.php?where=search last;
rewrite ^/about$ /index.php?where=about last;
rewrite ^/contact$ /index.php?where=contact last;

  rewrite ^/posts/([0-9])$ /index.php?posts=$1 last;

  break;
}

}

location /contact_ajax {
if ($request_method !~ ^(POST)$ ) {
return 405;
}
if (!-e $request_filename) {
rewrite ^/contact_ajax$ /index.php?where=contact_js break;
}
}

location /downloads/ {
rewrite ^downloads/(.*)$ /downloads/$1 break;
return 403;
}

location ~* ^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|css|js)$ {
expires 30d;
}

error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /var/www/myweb;
}

location ~ .php$ {
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/myweb$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}

}

----- Original Message ----
From: Igor S. [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 11:52:53 PM
Subject: Re: New to nginx

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 04:21:56AM -0800, Ivan L. wrote:

unknown directive “if(-d”

When I remove if(-d) statement, the error I receive;

unknown directive “if(!-e)”

As it was already said, you need a space between “if” and “(”:

 if (

However, your configuraiton is very strange.

  break;
}
Why do you use “^/search$” ?

location /about {
if($request_method !~ GET) {
return 405;
}
if(!-e $request_filename) {
expires max;
rewrite ^/about$ /index.php?where=about break;
}
}

What do you expect here ?

location /contact {
if($request_method !~ ^(GET|POST)$) {
return 405;
}
if(!-e $request_filename) {
expires max;
rewrite ^/contact$ /index.php?where=contact break;
}
}

What do you expect here ?

location /downlods/ {
rewrite ^downloads/(.*)$ /downloads/$1 break;
return 403;
}

What do you expect here ?

ileider · March 1, 2009, 9:43am

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 09:03:14PM -0800, Ivan L. wrote:

Why do you use “^/search$” ?

I use this for the queries like “search?q=search_string”

Then you need just:

location = /search {
    rewrite ^  /index.php?where=search last;
}

location /posts {
    rewrite ^/posts/(\d)$ /index.php?posts=$1 last;
}

What do you expect here ?

I wanted only GET|HEAD availability on some pages, and only POST on some pages.

location = /about {
    if ($request_method != GET) {
        return 405;
    }
    rewrite ^  /index.php?where=about last;
}

or

location = /about {
    limit_except GET {
        deny all;
    }
    rewrite ^  /index.php?where=about last;
}

What do you expect here ?

That suppose to be a page that only accepts POST.

location = /contact {
if($request_method != POST) {
return 405;
}

  rewrite ^  /index.php?where=contact last;

}

location /downlods/ {

rewrite ^downloads/(.*)$ /downloads/$1 break;
return 403;
}

What do you expect here ?

That’s downloads folder, I wanted to disable directory listing.

Just:

location /downlods/ {
}

ileider · March 1, 2009, 6:13am

Thanks.

----- Original Message ----
From: Xavier G. [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 11:36:36 PM
Subject: Re: New to nginx

Hello

unknown directive “if($request_method”

you need a space between if and (
eg:

if ($request_method …

xav