Hello all.

I want to use Nginx as a simple reverse proxy, but if the server behind Nginx is down I just was to display a blank page. For some reason this configuration isn't displaying a blank page on error 502 and I can't figure out why.

Thanks for your help!

user www-data;
worker_processes  1;

error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;

events {
    worker_connections  1024;
    use epoll;
    # multi_accept on;
}

http {

    keepalive_timeout 65;
    proxy_read_timeout 200;

    upstream tornado {
        server 127.0.0.1:8001;
    }

    server {
        listen 80;
        server_name www.something.com;

        location / {
            error_page 502 = @blank;
            proxy_pass http://tornado;
        }

        location @blank {
            index index.html;
            root /web/blank;
        }
    }
}