# Nested error\_page request

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nested-error-page-request/209479>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [July 14, 2011, 8:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nested-error-page-request/209479 "2011-07-14T20:33:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luislavena)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 8:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nested-error-page-request/209479/1 "2011-07-14T20:33:53Z")

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Hello,

I’m trying to figure a way around a nested error\_page request (which  
doesn’t seem to work). The problem is that I’ve got a memcached setup  
that looks like this:

server {

```
    error_page 500 502 /site_media/flat/500.html;
    proxy_intercept_errors on;

    <snip>...

    location / {
            <snip>...
            set $memcached_key "http://domain.com$uri";
            memcached_pass <IP>:<PORT>;
            error_page 404 502 = @cache_miss;
    }

    location @cache_miss { proxy_pass http://backend; }

```

}

The cache\_miss error\_page directive seems to disable my ability to set  
a second error\_page for 500 errors that then come from the backend. Is  
there a way that I can make this work, either by modifying my  
memcached setup or my error\_page setup?

Joel

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**Author:** ![Joel\_Eidsath](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Joel\_Eidsath](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Joel_Eidsath)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 8:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nested-error-page-request/209479/2 "2011-07-14T20:43:49Z")

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Hey Joel,  
You may want to look at:  
recursive\_error\_pages on;

-Umesh

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**Author:** ![Joel\_Eidsath](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Joel\_Eidsath](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Joel_Eidsath)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 8:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nested-error-page-request/209479/3 "2011-07-14T20:47:32Z")

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Awesome! Thanks, Umesh.