update nginx status code

Question

I want nginx to handle 404 error status and redirect them to another domain.

In headers "Location:" is updated but status is still 404 but should be 301.

Here is my code :

# error handling error_page 404 @404; log_not_found off; proxy_intercept_errors on; 

and :

location @404 { rewrite ^ http://www.example.com/404.html? permanent; } 

So following command lynx -head -dump 'http://localhost:9999/a_404_error' gives me :

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Server: nginx/0.8.54 Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:59:12 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 169 Connection: close Location: http://www.example.com/404.html 

Any idea ?

Answer 1

I finally did it like this :

error_page 404 http://www.example.com/404.html 

It gives a 302 code and just works

Answer 2

error_page 404 = @404 will allow location @404 to set the response status