Nginx status page not found

Question

I'm trying to enable the Nginx status page on my Centos 7 server.

I installed Nginx from the EPEL repository, Nginx is built with staus page support:

[root@server ~]# nginx -V 2>&1 | grep -o with-http_stub_status_module
with-http_stub_status_module

I have added a single config file /etc/nginx/conf.d/status.conf:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name localhost;

    location /nginx_status {
        stub_status on;
        access_log off;
        allow 127.0.0.1;
        deny all;
    }
}

After restart, Nginx can't find the status page:

[root@server ~]# wget http://localhost/nginx_status
--2017-01-06 17:02:09--  http://localhost/nginx_status
Resolving localhost (localhost)... ::1, 127.0.0.1
Connecting to localhost (localhost)|::1|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2017-01-06 17:02:09 ERROR 404: Not Found.

Every tutorial or example I found online says these are the steps I should take. Why do I keep getting a 404?

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 06 '17 at 17:27

4

Your server block is missing a listen directive:

    listen [::]:80;

This directive tells nginx to answer IPv6 connections for that server. Unfortunately you omitted it, and only are answering IPv4 connections.

But, since localhost resolves to an IPv6 address (and in fact, IPv6 is the default protocol for everything on the Internet) your request is being processed by the default server block included with the default configuration, which is listening on IPv6.

You should be extra careful to ensure that all server blocks listen on IPv6 (mandatory, even if you do not have global IPv6 yet) and IPv4 (optional, only if you use IPv4).

answered Jan 06 '17 at 17:27

Michael Hampton

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Now, my 404 has changed to 403, one step at a time ;) – Rens Verhage Jan 06 '17 at 18:18
@verhage You didn't `allow ::1;` either :) – Michael Hampton Jan 06 '17 at 18:18
Haha, you beat me to it, I just added allow ::1; to my config and it works. I get it now, I didn't realize I had to also configure the IPv6 adresses. – Rens Verhage Jan 06 '17 at 18:20

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 06 '17 at 16:56

I can't see any issues with your config and it's 404 rather than 403 which implies that it's not even read that config, so the debug steps I would go through are:

have you restarted nginx ;)
anything in the error_log?
is nginx really listening on localhost? on ip4 and ip6? (netstat -plnt)
try wget with the headers showing (wget -SO- http://localhost/nginx_status) perhaps something will show up
is nginx really reading this config file? (is there another somewhere? make a deliberate typo and see if it barfs)
is there more than one nginx? (getting stretched here, but stranger things have happened). Perhaps a restart isn't killing the old process?
remove the server_name directive and try without it

Nginx status page not found

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