Hello!

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 12:12:10PM +0000, Friscia, Michael wrote:

> I’m wondering if there’s a simple way to solve this problem.
>
> The upstream application sometimes returns a blank 500 error
> which Nginx then serves as the blank page. This is working as
> intended. But what I’d like Nginx to do is display a custom
> error page if the upstream 500 error is blank, but if the
> upstream 500 page is not blank, then I want to serve the
> upstream 500 error page.
>
> Has anyone ever come up with a way to handle a case like that?
>
> I was thinking of having a custom header in the upstream app and
> if that header doesn’t exist, then serve a page from Nginx but
> before I run down that path I thought I’d ask. I cannot use
> proxy_intercept_errors on; because the upstream app serves
> customized 404 errors that I would lose.

Note that you can configure interception of only 500 error page,
as nginx will only intercept errors you have an explicit
error_page for. That is, a configuration like this will only
intercept 500, but not 404:

location / {
proxy_pass http://backend;
proxy_intercept_errors on;
error_page 500 /error500.httml;
}

location = /error500.html {
...
}

This won't allow to test if the returned upstream error response
is blank or not, but may be enough for your use case based on the
above description.

--
Maxim Dounin
http://mdounin.ru/
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