Thanks, that did the trick exactly!

Now that I have something that works, I'm off to the docs to figure out where my fundamental misunderstandings were and correct them. Very much appreciated!

-- Gary F.

On Jul 12, 2013, at 1:04 PM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin@mdounin.ru> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 12:47:02PM -0700, Gary Foster wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> Here's the configuration snippets I'm currently using:
>>
>> location = /events {
>> access_log events_access.log events_format;
>> expires 1s;
>> try_files @proxy @proxy;
>> # try_files @proxy /empty.html;
>> # try_files @proxy =200;
>
> You are trying to use try_files incorrectly. Please read docs at
> http://nginx.org/r/try_files.
>
>> }
>>
>> location @proxy {
>> proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8887;
>> proxy_intercept_errors on;
>> access_log events_access.log events_format;
>> error_page 502 =200 /empty.html;
>> proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
>> }
>>
>> Basically, what I want is that if it logs every incoming request
>> normally. If it can forward the request to the upstream proxy,
>> it does so after logging it, and if it can't, it simply logs it
>> and returns a 200.
>>
>> Is this possible and if so how?
>
> I would recommend something like this:
>
> location = /events {
> access_log events_access.log events_format;
> error_page 502 504 = /empty;
> proxy_pass ...;
> }
>
> location = /empty {
> access_log events_access.log events_format;
> return 200 "";
> }
>
> Note the above configuration snippet doesn't try to intercept
> errors returned by upstream servers, but only handles cases when
> nginx can't reach them and/or an invalid response is returned. If
> upstream servers are expected to return various errors,
> proxy_intercept_errors should be used, as well as additional codes
> in error_page.
>
> --
> Maxim Dounin
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>
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