Unknown directive "if" nginx-0.7.60

Server NGINX
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Hi,

Please forgive my newbness to nginx here. I’ve tried a bunch of
stuff, googling and searching the nginx mail forum, to no avail.

I am trying to setup nginx using memcached and I have an app running
on an Apache backend. I need all POSTs passed through to the backend,
and GETs can be cached. I’ve read the examples, made up a .conf file,
and when I try to start nginx, I get this error:

[emerg]: unknown directive “if” in /home/mydomain/nginx/conf/
nginx.conf:26

If I comment out the if directive, then I get this error:

[emerg]: unknown directive “set” in /home/girlprops/nginx/conf/
nginx.conf:33

I want to add in here that with a different .conf, without trying to
use memcached, and just proxy_pass to my backend, things were working,
so I can demonstrate a little competency with nginx. It’s when I
cobbled together .conf bits from various blogs about nginx+memcached
that I started having problems.

Running under Fedora Core 10, built from source. I figure I must not
be compiling some module in or I have my location {} block in the
wrong part of the .conf or some other n00b foolishness. If someone
can give me a pointer in the right direction, I’d appreciate it very
much. I’m pretty excited about being able to have a RAM resident
cache running on my site, and also being able to create a substantial
countermeasure against the latest DoS exploit by using nginx, not to
mention, getting a few gobs of RAM back from using Apache as the front
end.

Thank you for any help,
Alan

Here is my configure command:

./configure
–prefix=/home/$1/nginx
–user=$1
–group=$1
–without-http_rewrite_module
–with-http_ssl_module
–with-md5=/usr/include
–with-http_realip_module
–with-http_perl_module
–with-pcre=…/pcre-7.9
–with-sha1=/usr/include

and my nginx.conf

worker_processes 1;

events {
worker_connections 16384;
}

http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;

 sendfile        on;
 keepalive_timeout  65;

 server {
     listen       80;
     server_name  home.mydomain.com home0.mydomain.com

home1.mydomain.com home2.mydomain.com home3.mydomain.com;

     location / {
         root   html;
         index  index.html index.htm;
     }

location /test {

  if ($request_method != GET) {
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $server_name;
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9000;
    break;
  }

  set $memcached_key "mydomain:$uri"
  memcached_pass localhost:11212;

  proxy_intercept_errors on;

  error_page 404 @fetch;
}

location @fetch {
  proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $server_name;
  proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9000;
}

location /photos {
  proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9002;
}

     # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
     #
     error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
     location = /50x.html {
         root   html;
     }
 }


 # HTTPS server
 #
 server {
     listen       443;
    server_name  home.mydomain.com home0.mydomain.com

home1.mydomain.com home2.mydomain.com home3.mydomain.com;

     ssl                  on;
     ssl_certificate      mydomain.com.cert;
     ssl_certificate_key  mydomain.com.key;

     ssl_session_timeout  5m;

     ssl_protocols  SSLv2 SSLv3 TLSv1;
     ssl_ciphers  ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:

+SSLv2:+EXP;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

     location / {
         root   html;
         index  index.html index.htm;
     }

location /MyApp {
  proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9001;
  proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $server_name;
}
 }

}

2

On Sunday 21 June 2009, Alan Hysinger wrote:

without-http_rewrite_module

remove this option from configuration command

3

Thanks, that fixed it for me. I would never have guessed.