On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 10:57:48AM -0400, jackdempsey wrote:

> Thanks Igor, Mike. I've tried the -e flag, and it doesn't seem to follow the symlinks correctly:
>
> # check if the file exists and serve it
> if (-e $request_filename) {
> access_log off;
> expires 1d;
> break;
> }
>
> # check for an index file, and serve that
> if (-e $request_filename/index.html) {
> rewrite (.*) $1/index.html break;
> }
>
> # rails page caching
> if (-e $request_filename.html) {
> rewrite (.*) $1.html break;
> }
>
> # route traffic to sae-conf cluster
> if (!-e $request_filename) {
> proxy_pass http://site-here;
> break;
> }
>
> When I make the link a hardlink, it does work correctly (with just the -f flag). The -e test should work on 0.6.32, right? Is there anything else I might need to do, any option, compile flag, etc? I can't imagine so, but I'm pretty confident given my local tests that its not working. Anyone have a config with -e working on symbolic links? Maybe its worth putting together a demo site/config myself and seeing if it would work for others. Thanks again for the help.

You should get http://sysoev.ru/nginx/patch.try_files.0.6.35.5
and use

location / {
try_files $uri $uri/index.html $uri.html @rails;
}

location @rails {
proxy_pass http://site-here;
}


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