Hello,

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

Thanks,
Zev

On 10/24/2009 05:30 PM, Zev Blut wrote:
> 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
>