Handling an error after X-Accel-Redirect

Server NGINX
1

We’d like to be able to handle (perhaps try another server) an error
coming back after X-Accel-Redirect. In other words, the server to which
we redirected sends us a 500 – we want to handle that error, or try
another server. Is this possible?

2

Hello!

On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 04:32:05PM -0700, Brian M. wrote:

We’d like to be able to handle (perhaps try another server) an error
coming back after X-Accel-Redirect. In other words, the server to which
we redirected sends us a 500 – we want to handle that error, or try
another server. Is this possible?

There are two possible approaches for fallback to another
server(s):

  1. Use upstream{} with multiple servers defined and
    proxy_next_upstream configured appropriately.

  2. Use proxy_intercept_errors and set error_page, something like
    this:

    location /files/ {
    proxy_intercept_errors on;
    error_page 500 = @fallback;
    proxy_pass …;
    }

    location @fallback {
    # try another server here
    proxy_pass …;
    }

See wiki & docs for details.

Maxim D.