Question
Site still showing internal sever error despite custom 404 error page
- Posted October 31, 2019
- Nginx
I followed the tutorial on ‘https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-nginx-to-use-custom-error-pages-on-ubuntu-14-04’ to add a custom 404 page to my ip but instead of showing 404 page it shows internal sever error my error log is :
2019/10/31 13:42:18 [emerg] 12796#12796: duplicate location “/testing” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:94 2019/10/31 13:42:43 [emerg] 12828#12828: duplicate location “/testing” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:94 2019/10/31 13:46:06 [emerg] 12871#12871: unknown directive “First” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:51 2019/10/31 13:48:22 [emerg] 12905#12905: unknown directive “First” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:51 2019/10/31 13:51:43 [emerg] 12941#12941: unknown directive “First” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:51 2019/10/31 13:54:48 [emerg] 12979#12979: unknown directive “First” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:51 2019/10/31 14:02:05 [emerg] 13058#13058: duplicate location “/testing” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:95 2019/10/31 14:02:23 [emerg] 13090#13090: duplicate location “/testing” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:95 2019/10/31 15:24:34 [emerg] 13848#13848: duplicate location “/custom_404.html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:80
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Two things!
First, you have there two different classes of error. You’ve tried to set up a custom
404page, which will be used for404responses. But the internal server error response is500, and to overwrite this page you would need to create a custom 500 page.Here is a brief description of HTTP errors:
404is not found)500is internal server error)The other thing is the error itself, from the log messages it seems there’s something wrong with your Nginx configuration file. Try
nginx -tto see what errors it might show, re-check your file and read the surrounding instructions in the tutorial.Hi @dronerscomng,
It seems you have an error in your /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default file on line 51. The error states, there is an Unknown directive “First”. This is why you are getting a 500 Internal Server Error as opposed to a 404 Not Found error/page.
I can give you a hint where to look if you provide us with the default file around the line 51.
Regards, KDSys