Here's my Nginx config, in brief:
...
server {
listen 80;
server_name whatever;
root /var/www/;
location /api/1.0 {
...
`proxy_pass http://localhost:8000/;
}
location /api/2.0 {
...
proxy_pass http://localhost:8080/;
}
location / {
root /var/www/static/;
default_type text/html;
try_files $uri $uri/index.html index.html;
}
}
If I now go to localhost
, and append a random name that doesn't correspond to anything in my static files, or mean anything in either of two applications (e.g. http://localhost/whatever
), I get a strange error in my log:
2013/09/14 20:58:20 [error] 28731#0: *2 open() "/var/wwwindex.html" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 127.0.0.1, server: ec2-54-234-175-21.compute-1.amazonaws.com, request: "GET /whatever HTTP/1.1", host: "localhost"
I'm thinking this must just reflect my lack of understanding, because I really have no idea why nginx is trying to access "/var/wwwindex.html". Note that I don't want this request to succeed, I just want it to fail in a way I understand. What exactly is happening? Thoughts appreciated, thanks in advance!