Nginx - Customizing 404 page

Question

Nginx+PHP (on fastCGI) works great for me. When I enter a path to a PHP file which doesn't exist, instead of getting the default 404 error page (which comes for any invalid .html file), I simply get a "No input file specified.".

How can I customize this 404 error page?

Answer 1

You can setup a custom error page for every location block in your nginx.conf, or a global error page for the site as a whole.

To redirect to a simple 404 not found page for a specific location:

location /my_blog {     error_page    404 /blog_article_not_found.html; } 

A site wide 404 page:

server {     listen 80;     error_page  404  /website_page_not_found.html;     ... 

You can append standard error codes together to have a single page for several types of errors:

location /my_blog {     error_page 500 502 503 504 /server_error.html } 

To redirect to a totally different server, assuming you had an upstream server named server2 defined in your http section:

upstream server2 {     server 10.0.0.1:80; } server {     location /my_blog {         error_page    404 @try_server2;     }     location @try_server2 {         proxy_pass http://server2;     } 

The manual can give you more details, or you can search google for the terms nginx.conf and error_page for real life examples on the web.