Getting on internal redirection cycle

Server NGINX
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Hi

I’m running into a problem where requests for 403, get caught in a
redirect loop and eventually fail with a 500 response.
I want to return custom 403 page for requests from germany.

###Config###

pid /var/run/nginx/nginx.pid;
user nginx nginx;
worker_processes 4;
worker_rlimit_nofile 30000;

events {
worker_connections 4028;
use epoll;
}

http {

geoip_country /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat;

geo $Default {
default 0;
#skip this ip from getting 403
12.32.32.32 1;
}

Size Limits

client_body_buffer_size 128K;
client_header_buffer_size 1M;
client_max_body_size 1M;
large_client_header_buffers 8 8k;

Timeouts

client_body_timeout 60;
client_header_timeout 60;
expires 12h;
keepalive_timeout 60 60;
send_timeout 30;

General Options

ignore_invalid_headers on;
keepalive_requests 50;
recursive_error_pages on;
sendfile on;
server_name_in_redirect off;
server_tokens off;

upstream www.abcd.com {
server www.abcd.com:443 ;
}
server {
listen 12.23.34.45:80;
server_name www.abcd.com;
access_log /var/log/nginx/www.abcd.com/access.log main;
error_log /var/log/nginx/www.abcd.com/error.log;

                if ($geoip_country_code = 'DE' ) {
                   set $value "${Default}I";
                 }

                if ($value = 0I){
                    return 403;
                 }

            error_page 403 /e403.html;
    location /e403.html {
      root  /var/www/html/maintenance;
      internal;
    }


             ## PROXY - Web
             location / {
                    rewrite ^(.*)  https://www.abcd.com$1

permanent;
}

            # redirect server error pages to the static page

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

End Config

Error log

2011/07/28 09:25:10 [error] 20282#0: *242010 rewrite or internal
redirection cycle while internal redirect to “/e403.html”, client:
122.248.163.3, server: www.abcd.com, request: “GET /favicon.ico
HTTP/1.1”, host: “www.abcd.com”

End Log

Location of e403.html /var/www/html/maintenance

Can someone please help me figure out the issue here.

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