I have my config setup to handle a bunch of GET requests which render pixels that work fine to handle analytics and parse query strings for logging. With an additional third party data stream, I need to handle a POST request to a given url that has JSON in an expected loggable format inside of it's request body. I don't want to use a secondary server with proxy_pass
and just want to log the whole response into an associated log file like what it does with GET requests. A snippet of some code that I'm using looks like the following:
GET request (which works great):
location ^~ /rl.gif {
set $rl_lcid $arg_lcid;
if ($http_cookie ~* "lcid=(.*\S)")
{
set $rl_lcid $cookie_lcid;
}
empty_gif;
log_format my_tracking '{ "guid" : "$rl_lcid", "data" : "$arg__rlcdnsegs" }';
access_log /mnt/logs/nginx/my.access.log my_tracking;
rewrite ^(.*)$ http://my/url?id=$cookie_lcid? redirect;
}
Here is kinda what I am trying to do: POST request (which does not work):
location /bk {
log_format bk_tracking $request_body;
access_log /mnt/logs/nginx/bk.access.log bk_tracking;
}
Curling curl http://myurl/bk -d name=example
gives me a 404 page not found.
Then I tried:
location /bk.gif {
empty_gif;
log_format bk_tracking $request_body;
access_log /mnt/logs/nginx/bk.access.log bk_tracking;
}
Curling curl http://myurl/bk.gif -d name=example
gives me a 405 Not Allowed
.
My current version is nginx/0.7.62
. Any help in the right direction is very much appreciated! Thanks!
UPDATE So now my post looks like this:
location /bk {
if ($request_method != POST) {
return 405;
}
proxy_pass $scheme://127.0.0.1:$server_port/dummy;
log_format my_tracking $request_body;
access_log /mnt/logs/nginx/my.access.log my_tracking;
}
location /dummy { set $test 0; }
It is logging the post data correctly, but returns a 404 on the requesters end. If I change the above code to return a 200 like so:
location /bk {
if ($request_method != POST) {
return 405;
}
proxy_pass $scheme://127.0.0.1:$server_port/dummy;
log_format my_tracking $request_body;
access_log /mnt/logs/nginx/my.access.log my_tracking;
return 200;
}
location /dummy { set $test 0; }
Then it return the 200
correctly, but no longer records the post data.
ANOTHER UPDATE Kinda found a working solution. Hopefully this can help other on their way.
This solution works like a charm (updated in 2017 to honor that log_format needs to be in the http part of the nginx config):
log_format postdata $request_body;
server {
# (...)
location = /post.php {
access_log /var/log/nginx/postdata.log postdata;
fastcgi_pass php_cgi;
}
}
I think the trick is making nginx believe that you will call a cgi script.