Hi,
This is my first time post, hi everybody.
The reason of this post is that I found some Nginx behaviour that I
don’t understand.
I would like to know if it’s a bug or not.
Version: nginx/0.8.52
I pointed all DNS requests to my Nginx server (using a CNAME wildcard).
Every none matched server names are handled by the snippit below (a
fallback server configuration)
server {
# CONFIG
server_name _;
# SETTINGS
listen 80 default;
root /var/www/host/default/public;
access_log /var/www/home/log/nginx/default.access.log;
error_page 404 /error_page/404.html;
location /error_page/ {alias /var/www/home/error_page/; allow all;
internal;}
}
A request to kjhtgfcdh.example.com will be catched by the fallback
configuration and then serves
my custom defined 404 because the root directive points to an empy
directory; thus no file is found.
This way I can inform clients (with a custom error_page) they are
accessing the wrong host.
But this seemed wrong so I changed it to:
server {
# CONFIG
server_name _;
# SETTINGS
listen 80 default;
access_log /var/www/home/log/nginx/default.access.log;
error_page 404 /error_page/404.html;
location /error_page/ {alias /var/www/home/error_page/; allow all;
internal;}
return 404;
}
This is almost the same, but it has no root directive and a return
directive.
This seems the way to do it because it skips the need to look for a file
in the root and returns with a 404
immediately, but it doesn’t serve my custom error_page. It serves the
nginx internal 404 document.
So I changed it to:
server {
# CONFIG
server_name _;
# SETTINGS
listen 80 default;
access_log /var/www/home/log/nginx/default.access.log;
error_page 404 /error_page/404.html;
location /error_page/ {alias /var/www/home/error_page/; allow all;
internal;}
location / {
return 404;
}
}
Again no root directive but the return directive is wrapped in a
location block and it DOES
serve my custom error_page.
My questions:
Did I found a bug? And if I did; what would be correct behaviour?
And if I did not; what is the correct behaviour in this context?
- Mark