I understand now--sorry. I was thinking that because the actual analytics processing is done via javascript that a php passthrough for that location wasn't necessary, but now I see what you are saying. I will make the change this evening.

Thanks very much for helping!



On Friday, April 13, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Maxim Dounin wrote:

> Hello!
>
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 10:28:18AM -0500, BigdinoWebmaster wrote:
>
> > Maxim, thanks for the reply.
> >
> > There's no backend host; there is only the one server running
> > nginx + php-fpm + the forum database. Should I just do a
> > proxy_pass to localhost, or would that create a loop and cause
> > bad things to happen?
> >
>
>
> To pass requests to php-fpm you have to use fastcgi_pass. And you
> have to duplicate this fastcgi_pass for locations you've added.
>
> Maxim Dounin
>
> >
> > Alternately, should I just create empty directories and files to
> > match the location targets, or would that cause Nginx to try to
> > GET and POST them instead?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Friday, April 13, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Maxim Dounin wrote:
> >
> > > 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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