I'm trying to use wide-open CORS configuration for Nginx. I found this configuration: https://enable-cors.org/server_nginx.html. Since i started to use this configuration Nginx only serves an empty response with 200 status code. I'm using Nginx with PHP-FPM. I have already checked and there is nothing wrong with the code itself i can say that because i have put some HTTP responses on text files. On the text files i have the correct HTTP responses but they are not sent to the client by Nginx.

Here is the configuration:

location / {
if ($request_method = 'OPTIONS') {
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*' always;
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS' always;
#
# Custom headers and headers various browsers *should* be OK with but aren't
#
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'x-authorization,Filename,DNT,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,content-type,Range' always;
#
# Tell client that this pre-flight info is valid for 20 days
#
add_header 'Access-Control-Max-Age' 1728000 always;
add_header 'Content-Type' 'text/plain; charset=utf-8' always;
add_header 'Content-Length' 0 always;
return 204;
}

if ($request_method = 'GET') {
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*' always;
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS' always;
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'x-authorization,Filename,DNT,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,content-type,Range' always;
add_header 'Access-Control-Expose-Headers' 'Content-Length,Content-Range' always;
}

include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;

fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root/app_dev.php$is_args$args;
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT $realpath_root;

fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.*)$;
fastcgi_pass php-fpm:9000;
}

I'm testing the configs just for GET requests at the moment.

I have tried to make HTTP requests with google chrome and the Insomnia REST client and with both clients the same behaviour ocurr. I would like to make it clear that the HTTP requests are getting in to the code correctly and the correct HTTP responses are being computed, but the HTTP responses are not being sent to the client by the Nginx.

Thanks for your attention.