Hello!

On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 07:45:29PM -0400, gyre007 wrote:

> I have the following drop.conf files located in /etc/nginx/drop.conf
>
> location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }

[...]

> Strange thing is when I include it in whichever server directive - ie in
> whichever virtual host I have configured - I'm still getting favicon
> logs in my access log. Is this a BUG ??
> It looks like the include is simply not working ?
>
> Example of the virtual host I'm including this in:
>
> server {

[...]

> error_page 404 /errors/404.html;
> location /errors/ {
> alias /var/www/errors/;
> internal;
> }

[...]

> ***** - - [06/Jul/2012:22:16:05 +0000] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404
> 134 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_4)
> AppleWebKit/536.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/20.0.1132.47
> Safari/536.11"

[...]

> Am I missing out something really obvious ?

Requests are logged in context of a location where request
execution ends up. As you have error_page 404 defined, and no
favicon.ico file - error 404 is generated and redirected to
/errors/404.html. As a result request is logged in context of
"location /errors/" where you have access log enabled.

Maxim Dounin

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