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DisgruntledGoat
Asked: 2016-03-25 07:26:52 +0800 CST

Nginx geo variable not working in if clause

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Using Nginx 1.4.6, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I have this in the http section of nginx.conf:

geo $maintenance {
    default         1;
    86.161.27.175   0;
}

In my site config I have this:

error_page 503 /static/errors/503.html;
location /mydir/ {
    if ($maintenance) {
        return 503;
    }
    try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}

However, I am always getting a 503 error when viewing /mydir/ on my site, but for my IP that shouldn't be happening. I've double checked and that is definitely my current IP. I have another geo section for rate limiting that is working fine. Manually setting $maintenance to 0 just above the location block works fine.

Why is this not working?

nginx

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Found the problem: I had CloudFlare turned on for my staging site, so it was receiving a CloudFlare IP, not my actual IP. D'oh!

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