Igor Sysoev Wrote:
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> > It seems that the index module does not work
> with the try_files
> > directive. Would have expected the trying of
> '$uri/' to include the
> > defined index but it doesn't do so.
> >
> > Anyone else notice this?
>
> What is in error_log ?

Nothing.

Here is my Nginx -V

[root@server01 ~]# nginx -V
nginx version: nginx/0.8.54
built by gcc 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48)
TLS SNI support disabled
configure arguments:
--user=nginx
--group=nginx
--prefix=/usr/share/nginx
--sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx
--conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
--error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log
--http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log
--http-client-body-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/client_body
--http-proxy-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/proxy
--http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/fastcgi
--pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid
--lock-path=/var/lock/subsys/nginx
--with-http_ssl_module
--with-http_realip_module
--with-http_stub_status_module
--with-http_perl_module
--with-mail
--with-mail_ssl_module
--with-cc-opt='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector
--param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables'
--add-module=/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/nginx-0.8.54/nginx-upstream-fair
--add-module=/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/nginx-0.8.54/ngx_cache_purge-1.2
--add-module=/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/nginx-0.8.54/ngx-headers-more
--add-module=/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/nginx-0.8.54/ngx-devel-kit
--add-module=/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/nginx-0.8.54/ngx-echo-module
--add-module=/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/nginx-0.8.54/ngx-lua-module
--without-http_autoindex_module
--without-http_empty_gif_module
--without-http_memcached_module
--without-http_scgi_module
--without-http_split_clients_module
--without-http_ssi_module
--without-http_upstream_ip_hash_module
--without-http_uwsgi_module


As shown, I do have a few 3rd party modules and I disabled a few standard ones I don't use.

I did notice a while back that stuff did not work when the perl module was disabled and perhaps disabling the autoindex module is affecting this.