Suggestions on how to have error pages based on content type

Server NGINX
1

Hello,

I am wondering if it is possible to serve up error pages based on the
content type.

I.e. I want to show a different 503 error page for html, xml and
javascript content types.

I have tried to do something like this (with Nginx 0.6 series):

server {
listen 80;

charset off;
server_name errortest.localhost;

root /var/www/foobar/nginx_error_test;

if (-f /var/www/foobar/nginx_error_test/maintenance_on.html) {
  rewrite  ^(/images/.*)$  /images/server-maintenance.png break;
  return 503;
  break;
}

error_page   503 /system/maintenance;

location = /system/maintenance {
  auth_basic off;
  root /var/www/foobar/nginx_error_test/system;

  if ($content_type ~* javascript) {
    rewrite . /system/maintenance.json break;
  }

  if ($content_type ~* xml) {
    rewrite . /system/maintenance.xml break;
  }

  rewrite . /system/maintenance.html break;
}

if (-f $request_filename) {
   break;
}

if (-f $request_filename.html) {
   rewrite (.*) $1.html break;
}

}

Unfortunately, this does not work. All that happens is I get the
standard Nginx 503 html error response.

Any ideas if I can do this and if so what I am doing wrong?

Thanks,
Zev

2

Hello,

I take it, what I am trying to do is not possible?

Thanks,
Zev

3

How about this (not tested)?

 if ($content_type ~* xml) {

if (-f $request_filename.html) {
rewrite (.*) $1.html last;
}

}

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4

Hi Phillip,

On 10/27/2009 05:02 PM, Phillip O. wrote:

if (-f $request_filename.html) {
rewrite (.*) $1.html last;
}

}

This is almost there!

Now when I do a request I will get the proper Content-Type response:

wget --header “Content-Type: application/javascript” -S -O -
errortest.localhost/index.json
–12:40:31-- http://errortest.localhost/index.json
=> `-’
Resolving errortest.localhost… 127.0.0.3
Connecting to errortest.localhost|127.0.0.3|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response…
HTTP/1.1 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
Server: nginx/0.6.35
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:40:31 GMT
Content-Type: application/javascript
Content-Length: 102
Connection: keep-alive
12:40:31 ERROR 503: Service Temporarily Unavailable.

But unfortunately, the output is not my maintenance.json output, it is
nothing in the case of wget and the default 500 internal server error in
a browser. Interestingly enough, the Content-Length is correct for the
maintenance.(json|xml|html) for the proper setting.

Any ideas why it would not show the rewritten maintenance page?

Thanks,
Zev