id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	uname	nginx_version
1889	access_log off; returns 404 with nginx proxy	rameshsahoo11@…		"Summary: 

With nginx reverse proxy mode, I am trying to turn off access_log for a specific location. Doing so Nginx returns 404 for that location. Refer to the following example. 

Front-end Nginx configuration:

server {
        listen 80 default_server;
        listen [::]:80 default_server;
        access_log /var/log/nginx/site1_access main;
        error_log /var/log/nginx/site1_error debug;
        
        location ~* ^/icons/* {
               access_log off;
        }

       location / {
        proxy_pass         http://192.168.50.2;
        proxy_redirect     off;
        proxy_buffering    off;
        proxy_set_header   Host $host;
        proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For 
        $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-Host $server_name;
        
    }
}

Requirement:

=> My requirement is to turn off nginx logs on the backend server in order to save IO and configure the front-end to provide proxy pass and all website logs. 

Refer to the following access and error logs. 

============
Nginx logs
============

Main Page:http://172.17.0.2
==> /var/log/nginx/site1_access <==
172.17.0.1 - - [12/Nov/2019:09:52:26 +0000] ""GET / HTTP/1.1"" 304 0 ""-"" ""Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.120 Safari/537.36"" ""-""


==> /var/log/nginx/site1_error <==
2019/11/12 09:54:10 [error] 188#188: *3 open() ""/var/lib/nginx/html/icons/nginx-logo.png"" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 172.17.0.1, server: , request: ""GET /icons/nginx-logo.png HTTP/1.1"", host: ""172.17.0.2""


The above logs indicate that nginx is trying serve the page from the front-end server instead of forwarding the request to backend. 





"	defect	closed	minor		nginx-core	1.16.x	invalid		rameshsahoo11@…	Linux nginx-test 3.10.0-1062.4.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Sep 25 09:42:57 EDT 2019 x86_64 Linux	"nginx version: nginx/1.16.1
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