hi there. an nginx neophyte here.

i seem to have a problem having my custom error page display for my virtual host.

the error page (error.html) resides in /some/path/outside/of/var/www/html/

the custom error page (error.html) is displayed with my default server block code (and triggered using http://myipaddress/missingpage.html, where missingpage.html doesn't exist), but fails to show using the virtual host server block shown below (and triggered using https://somedomain.tld/missingpage.html):

server {

listen 80;
listen 443 ssl;

ssl_certificate /some/path/to/ssl/certificate/certificate.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /some/path/to/ssl/certificate//privatekey.pem;

root /some/path/to/domain/html/files;
index index.html;

server_name somedomain.tld;

location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}

location ~ ^/scripts/.*\.pl$ {
gzip off;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.socket;
fastcgi_index index.pl;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}

include /etc/nginx/custom/customerrorpage.conf;

}



where customerrorpage.conf contains the following content

error_page 404 405 500 501 /error.html;
location /error.html {
root /some/path/outside/of/var/www/html/;
internal;
}



when expecting a 404 (page not found) error, my custom error page is not shown, but instead i see the nginx output "404 Not Found" being displayed.

i've tried all manner of combos regarding error page location (inside and outside of /var/www/html/), code placement, file permissions/ownerships, etc. but i can't seem to get my custom error page being displayed for my virtual host code block.

with all of my attempted code combos, when applied to the default server block (and triggered using http://myipaddress/missingpage.html), the custom error page is always shown, but is never shown for my virtual host code block.

the (virtual host) domain functions as expected within web browsers, but that dang custom error page is a'hidin'

any suggestions would be greatly a'ppreciated.

thanks.

thed

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