Hello!

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 07:41:33AM -0500, BigdinoWebmaster wrote:

> I'm hosting a forum using Vanilla
> (http://www.vanillaforums.org), and its internal statistics
> tracking involves no small amount of GETs and POSTs to URIs that
> don't correspond to actual directories underneath the web root.
> Since every active user on the forum generates lots of these
> every minute, I wanted to exclude them from being logged to keep
> the server logs from growing to an unreasonable size, and so I
> added the following three lines to my server config to stop
> logging of the three main ones:
>
> location /plugin/imonline { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
> location /dashboard/notifications/inform { access_log off;
> log_not_found off; }
> location /settings/analyticstick.json { access_log off;
> log_not_found off; }
>
>
> Prior to adding the lines, the requests to those locations would
> generate an HTTP 200 response and the corresponding analytic
> action (counting thread views, showing who is online, etc) would
> be recorded in the forum's database. After adding the lines, all
> GETs and POSTs receive 404s, like this:

[...]

You should add correct processing to the locations you added as
well as access_log off, likely something like proxy_pass or
fastcgi_pass:

location /plugin/imonline {
access_log off;
log_not_found off;
proxy_pass http://your.backend.host;
...
}

Without this requests which match these locations are processed as
static, and end up with 404 as there are no corresponding files.

Maxim Dounin

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