# Nginix not servic static content as part of page

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**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [February 5, 2010, 12:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginix-not-servic-static-content-as-part-of-page/182972 "2010-02-05T12:09:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 12:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginix-not-servic-static-content-as-part-of-page/182972/1 "2010-02-05T12:09:08Z")

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I have a Mongrel cluster behind nginx and am trying to get nginx to  
serve up the static contents of my site with the following rule (RESTful  
URLs):

```
location / {
    if (-f $request_filename) {
        break;
    }

    if (!-f $request_filename) {
        proxy_pass http://mycluster$request_uri;
        break;
    }
}

```

When I load up a page which has images in it (referenced from  
/public/images) the requests for the images seem to hang forever (same  
goes for JS, CSS, etc). However, if I go straight to an image URL (right  
click, “view image”) all the files are served as expected - and they  
continue to be served if i turn the Mongrel cluster off. So nginx can  
clearly see and access all the static files. Also, when looking in  
firebug while loading a page I can see that double requests are being  
made for some of the files (not always the same ones!) and that  
sometimes one of them is served correctly while the other request will  
hang indefinitely. Latency for content that does get served is also much  
worse than when pointing straight to a Mongrel instance.

If I change the rule to redirect everything to my cluster the statics  
are all served fine - exactly the same result as if I go to one of the  
Mongrels directly - and performce improves massively:

```
location / {
    proxy_pass http://mycluster$request_uri;
}

```

That’s of course not an option as I very much want nginix to serve this  
content instead. Another strange thing is it seems the files do actually  
get sent; for example I can see the images in firebug when hovering over  
the never completing requests. I’m fairly new to nginix so it’s likely  
I’ve missed something obvious - I’ve tried my best to find the answer on  
my own but I really could do with some help!

Many thanks,

JS

P.S. Could it be that nginx and Mongrel are conflicting over who should  
serve the file?

Posted at Nginx Forum:

> **[nginix not servic static content as part of page](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,50870,50870#msg-50870)**
>
> I have a Mongrel cluster behind nginx and am trying to get nginx to serve up the static contents of my site with the following rule (RESTful URLs): location / { if (-f $request\_filename) { break; } if (!-f $

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**Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 12:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginix-not-servic-static-content-as-part-of-page/182972/2 "2010-02-05T12:32:33Z")

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As people have pointed out if() is bad choice:

Try this instead:

location / {  
try\_files $uri @fallback;  
}

```
location @fallback {
    proxy_pass http://mycluster$request_uri;
}

```

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**Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 1:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginix-not-servic-static-content-as-part-of-page/182972/3 "2010-02-05T13:20:33Z")

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Hello!

On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 06:08:20AM -0500, JohnSchulze wrote:

> ```
> }
> 
> ```
> 
> files (not always the same ones!) and that sometimes one of them  
> is served correctly while the other request will hang  
> indefinitely. Latency for content that does get served is also  
> much worse than when pointing straight to a Mongrel instance.

Could you please provide nginx -V output, full config and debug  
log for faulty request(s)? See here for instructions how to  
obtain debug log:

> **[A debugging log](http://nginx.org/en/docs/debugging_log.html)**

Note well: using try\_files and not using dynamic hostname  
resolution as suggested in previous reply is anyway preffered.  
But config as shown in your post should work without problems, and  
it would be good to investigate problem roots.

Maxim D.

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**Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginix-not-servic-static-content-as-part-of-page/182972/4 "2010-02-05T21:27:33Z")

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Oh, and here is my full nginx.conf contents:

error\_log logs/error.log;  
worker\_processes 1;  
events {  
worker\_connections 1024;  
}

http {  
include mime.types;  
default\_type application/octet-stream;

```
upstream mysite {
    server 127.0.0.1:4004;
}
server {
    #note: not actual IP
    listen 111.222.333.444:80;
    server_name _;
    return 444;
}
server {
    #note: not actual IP
    listen 111.222.333.444:80;
    server_name new.mysite.co.uk;
    root ../rails/MySite/public;

        location / {
            try_files $uri @rails;
        }

        location @rails {
            proxy_pass http://mysite$request_uri;
        }

    proxy_set_header Host $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For 

```

$proxy\_add\_x\_forwarded\_for;  
}  
}

Grateful for any help!

JS

Posted at Nginx Forum:

> **[Re: nginix not servic static content as part of page](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,50870,51099#msg-51099)**
>
> I have a Mongrel cluster behind nginx and am trying to get nginx to serve up the static contents of my site with the following rule (RESTful URLs): location / { if (-f $request\_filename) { break; } if (!-f $

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**Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 9:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginix-not-servic-static-content-as-part-of-page/182972/5 "2010-02-05T21:04:43Z")

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## Maxim D. Wrote:

> resolution as suggested in previous reply is  
> anyway preffered.  
> But config as shown in your post should work  
> without problems, and  
> it would be good to investigate problem roots.
> 
> Maxim D.

Many thanks for your suggestions, I have changed to use the try\_files  
method instead (is this a new directive?). Unfortunately the behaviour  
is exactly the same. I’ve run off a debug log for a page request but  
it’s 99kb(!) so I can’t really post it all here. In it I can see there  
are double requests for some files and for some of these I can’t see the  
200. Here is a part of the debug log where you can see two requests for  
“main.css” (there should only be one request) and it looks to me as if  
only one of them is finished with proper response headers:

2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 http process request line  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 http request line: “GET /main.css  
HTTP/1.1”  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 http uri: “/main.css”  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 http args: “”  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 http exten: “css”  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 http process request header line  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 http header: “Host:  
[new.mysite.co.uk](http://new.mysite.co.uk)”  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: _4 http header: “User-Agent:  
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.7)  
Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7”  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: 4 http header: "Accept:  
text/css,/_;q=0.1"  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 http header: “Accept-Language:  
en-gb,en;q=0.5”  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 http header: “Accept-Encoding:  
gzip,deflate”  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: _4 http header: "Accept-Charset:  
ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,_;q=0.7"  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 http header: “Keep-Alive: 300”  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 http header: “Connection:  
keep-alive”  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 http header: “Referer:  
[http://new.mysite.co.uk/](http://new.mysite.co.uk/)”  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 http alloc large header buffer  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 malloc: 007C2900:8192  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 http large header alloc: 007C2900  
8192  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 http large header copy: 646  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 WSARecv: fd:300 rc:0 43 of 7546  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 http header: “Cookie:  
\_\_utma=199252669.1348250431.1258842534.1265312340.1265330842.32;  
\_\_utmz=199252669.1265242890.29.5.utmcsr=localhost:3002|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/;  
\_\_utma=254979479.1627312296.1265337519.1265366781.1265398672.6;  
\_\_utmz=254979479.1265337519.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none);  
\_\_utmc=254979479;  
\_MySite\_session=BAh7CToPc2Vzc2lvbl9pZCIlYjhlOTZiZDllZTMxZmRlYzIxYTRjYjE5NDM0YzRlYzk6EF9jc3JmX3Rva2VuIjFXZkFDb0wyVWtMblRxeFZuZTJ1N0NEUk9ULzVxakhoSkhqaE0rR2syUTM0PSIMdXNlcl9pZGkGIgpmbGFzaElDOidBY3Rpb25Db250cm9sbGVyOjpGbGFzaDo6Rmxhc2hIYXNoewAGOgpAdXNlZHsA–f4af4fb56bea7b896f827000b464cb24ea0045d5;  
\_\_utmc=199252669; \_\_utmb=254979479.1.10.1265398672”  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 http header done  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 event timer del: 300: 2678663774  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 generic phase: 0  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 generic phase: 1  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 test location: “/”  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 using configuration “/”  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 http cl:-1 max:1048576  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 generic phase: 3  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 post rewrite phase: 4  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 generic phase: 5  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 generic phase: 6  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 generic phase: 7  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 access phase: 8  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 access phase: 9  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 post access phase: 10  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 try files phase: 11  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 http script var: “/main.css”  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 try to use file: “/main.css”  
“c:\nginx/../rails/MySite/public/main.css”  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 try file uri: “/main.css”  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 content phase: 12  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 content phase: 13  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 content phase: 14  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 content phase: 15  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 content phase: 16  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 content phase: 17  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 http filename:  
“c:\nginx/../rails/MySite/public/main.css”  
2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 add cleanup: 007C1ECC  
2010/02/05 19:42:55 160580#180468: master WaitForMultipleObjects: 4  
2010/02/05 19:42:55 160580#180468: reap worker  
2010/02/05 19:42:55 160580#180468: worker process 38652 exited with  
code C0000005  
2010/02/05 19:42:55 160580#180468: GetModuleFileName:  
“c:\nginx\nginx.exe”  
2010/02/05 19:42:55 160580#180468: start worker process 149388  
2010/02/05 19:42:55 149388#151852: bind() 77.235.41.34:80 #240  
2010/02/05 19:42:55 149388#151852: malloc: 00775560:24  
2010/02/05 19:42:55 149388#151852: counter: 00B00080, 5  
2010/02/05 19:42:55 149388#151852: nginx/0.8.33  
2010/02/05 19:42:55 149388#151852: OS: 250220 build:3790, “Service Pack  
2”, suite:112, type:3  
2010/02/05 19:42:55 149388#151852: worker started  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 160580#180468: WaitForMultipleObjects: 0  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 160580#180468: process: 0 149388 000006F0 e:0 j:0  
2010/02/05 19:42:55 149388#151852: create thread 142336  
2010/02/05 19:42:55 149388#142336: malloc: 007758D8:8192  
2010/02/05 19:42:55 149388#142336: malloc: 007778E0:106496  
2010/02/05 19:42:55 149388#142336: malloc: 007918E8:98304  
2010/02/05 19:42:55 149388#151852: create thread 180212  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#180212: cache manager  
WaitForMultipleObjects: 129  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: malloc: 007A98F0:98304  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#151852: create thread 163456  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: select add event fd:240 ev:0  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: worker cycle  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: select event: fd:240 wr:0  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: select timer: 500  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: select ready 1  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: select read 240  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: post event 007918E8  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: timer delta: 141  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: posted event 007918E8  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: delete posted event 007918E8  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: accept on 77.235.41.34:80, ready: 0  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: malloc: 007546E0:256  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 accept: 78.86.0.188 fd:300  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 event timer add: 300:  
60000:2678651603  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 select add event fd:300 ev:0  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: posted event 00000000  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: posted events 00000000  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: worker cycle  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: select event: fd:240 wr:0  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: select event: fd:300 wr:0  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: select timer: 500  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: select ready 1  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: select read 300  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 post event 00791948  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: timer delta: 15  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: posted events 00791948  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: posted event 00791948  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 delete posted event 00791948  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 malloc: 0075C128:720  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 malloc: 00900048:1024  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 malloc: 00767FA8:4096  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 http process request line  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 WSARecv: fd:300 rc:0 1024 of 1024  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 http request line: “GET /main.css  
HTTP/1.1”  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 http uri: “/main.css”  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 http args: “”  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 http exten: “css”  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 http process request header line  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 http header: “Host:  
[new.mysite.co.uk](http://new.mysite.co.uk)”  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: _5 http header: “User-Agent:  
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.7)  
Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7”  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: 5 http header: "Accept:  
text/css,/_;q=0.1"  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 http header: “Accept-Language:  
en-gb,en;q=0.5”  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 http header: “Accept-Encoding:  
gzip,deflate”  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: _5 http header: "Accept-Charset:  
ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,_;q=0.7"  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 http header: “Keep-Alive: 300”  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 http header: “Connection:  
keep-alive”  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 http header: “Referer:  
[http://new.mysite.co.uk/](http://new.mysite.co.uk/)”  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 http alloc large header buffer  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 malloc: 0075C400:256  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 malloc: 00768FB0:8192  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 http large header alloc: 00768FB0  
8192  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 http large header copy: 646  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 WSARecv: fd:300 rc:0 43 of 7546  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 http header: “Cookie:  
\_\_utma=199252669.1348250431.1258842534.1265312340.1265330842.32;  
\_\_utmz=199252669.1265242890.29.5.utmcsr=localhost:3002|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/;  
\_\_utma=254979479.1627312296.1265337519.1265366781.1265398672.6;  
\_\_utmz=254979479.1265337519.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none);  
\_\_utmc=254979479;  
\_MySite\_session=BAh7CToPc2Vzd2lvbl9pZCIlYjhlOTZiZDllZTMxZmRlYzIxYURjYjE5NDM0YzRlYzk6EF9jc3JmX3Rva2VuIjFXZkFDb0wyVWtMblRxeFZuZTJ1N0NEUk9ULzVxalhoSkhqaE0rR2syUTM0PSIMdXNlcl9pZGkGIgpmbGFzaElDOidBY3Rpb25Db250cm9sbGVyOjpGbGFzaDo6Rmxhc2hIYZNoewAGOgpAdXNlZHsA–f4af4fb56bea7b896f827000b464cb24ea0045d5;  
\_\_utmc=199252669; \_\_utmb=254979479.1.10.1265398672”  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 http header done  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 event timer del: 300: 2678651603  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 generic phase: 0  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 generic phase: 1  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 test location: “/”  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 using configuration “/”  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 http cl:-1 max:1048576  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 generic phase: 3  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 post rewrite phase: 4  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 generic phase: 5  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 generic phase: 6  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 generic phase: 7  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 access phase: 8  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 access phase: 9  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 post access phase: 10  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 try files phase: 11  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 http script var: “/main.css”  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 try to use file: “/main.css”  
“c:\nginx/../rails/MySite/public/main.css”  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 try file uri: “/main.css”  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 content phase: 12  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 content phase: 13  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 content phase: 14  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 content phase: 15  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 content phase: 16  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 content phase: 17  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 http filename:  
“c:\nginx/../rails/MySite/public/main.css”  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 add cleanup: 0076857C  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 http static fd: 312  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 http set discard body  
2010/02/05 19:42:56 149388#142336: \*5 HTTP/1.1 200 OK  
Server: nginx/0.8.33  
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:42:56 GMT  
Content-Type: text/css  
Content-Length: 527  
Last-Modified: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:25:56 GMT  
Connection: keep-alive  
Accept-Ranges: bytes

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[http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,50870,51089#msg-51089](http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,50870,51089#msg-51089)

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On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 03:04:07PM -0500, JohnSchulze wrote:

> > Note well: using try\_files and not using dynamic  
> > hostname  
> > resolution as suggested in previous reply is  
> > anyway preffered.  
> > But config as shown in your post should work  
> > without problems, and  
> > it would be good to investigate problem roots.
> > 
> > Maxim D.
> 
> Many thanks for your suggestions, I have changed to use the try\_files method instead (is this a new directive?). Unfortunately the behaviour is exactly the same. I’ve run off a debug log for a page request but it’s 99kb(!) so I can’t really post it all here. In it I can see there are double requests for some files and for some of these I can’t see the 200. Here is a part of the debug log where you can see two requests for “main.css” (there should only be one request) and it looks to me as if only one of them is finished with proper response headers:

> 2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 http filename: “c:\nginx/../rails/MySite/public/main.css”  
> 2010/02/05 19:42:53 38652#171748: \*4 add cleanup: 007C1ECC  
> 2010/02/05 19:42:55 160580#180468: master WaitForMultipleObjects: 4  
> 2010/02/05 19:42:55 160580#180468: reap worker  
> 2010/02/05 19:42:55 160580#180468: worker process 38652 exited with code C0000005

The worker exited abnormaly. I do not know how to troubleshoot such bugs  
on Windows without coredumps. Probably you may look the DrWatson log  
file  
for stack dump to estimate the point of failure.

–  
Igor S.

> **[Igor Sysoev](http://sysoev.ru/en/)**

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Thank you Igor, is it not possible to get some clues from the exit code  
(C0000005)? Also, maybe it’s because I’ve been restarting the nginx  
service over and over, but nginx just crashed and I couldn’t restart it  
without a reboot (even after terminating the nginx processes manually).  
The service is running under the local system account and it does have  
acess to the correct folders etc btw.

JS

Posted at Nginx Forum:

> **[Re: nginix not servic static content as part of page](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,50870,51136#msg-51136)**
>
> I have a Mongrel cluster behind nginx and am trying to get nginx to serve up the static contents of my site with the following rule (RESTful URLs): location / { if (-f $request\_filename) { break; } if (!-f $

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On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 05:21:30PM -0500, JohnSchulze wrote:

> Thank you Igor, is it not possible to get some clues from the exit code (C0000005)? Also, maybe it’s because I’ve been restarting the nginx service over and over, but nginx just crashed and I couldn’t restart it without a reboot (even after terminating the nginx processes manually). The service is running under the local system account and it does have acess to the correct folders etc btw.

C0000005 means GPF, general protection fault, or segmentation fault in  
Unix world. Only DrWatson stack dump may help somehow here.

–  
Igor S.

> **[Igor Sysoev](http://sysoev.ru/en/)**

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Many thanks for your advice Igor, the problem has mysteriously gone away  
and I can’t seem to trigger the error again. Strange, becuase I can’t  
really think what I’ve changed that would fix it, but I’m not  
complaining!

JS

Posted at Nginx Forum:

> **[Re: nginix not servic static content as part of page](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,50870,53761#msg-53761)**
>
> I have a Mongrel cluster behind nginx and am trying to get nginx to serve up the static contents of my site with the following rule (RESTful URLs): location / { if (-f $request\_filename) { break; } if (!-f $