Hello!

On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 12:49:13AM -0700, Aaron Starr wrote:

> Update on the missing POST data when proxying to mongrel:
>
> This seems crazy, but it seems to me that the problem is related to
> having very large, un-rotated nginx log files. I noticed that the
> files were getting too large, and removed them (and got logrotate set
> up), and now I get my POST data, again.
>
> If anyone could confirm or deny this apparently nonsensical
> explanation, that would be appreciated.

Probably you have no space left for files in client_body_temp_path
- and as soon as you removed large old logs there are space and
everything is working again.

Guess you have nothing in error_log due to the very same reason -
no space left on device.

Maxim Dounin

>
> Aaron
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Aaron Starr <astarr@wiredquote.com> wrote:
> > Hi, all. Sorry in advance for what is hopefully a simple question.
> >
> > I'm using nginx as a reverse-proxy for a few mongrel instances. Using
> > AJAX (XMLHttpRequest), I POST a small bit of JSON to the server. The
> > request is properly proxied to mongrel, but with the POST data
> > missing!
> >
> > [..]
>