Logging POST data from $request_body

Question

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

Answer 1

I had a similar problem. GET requests worked and their (empty) request bodies got written to the the log file. POST requests failed with a 404. Experimenting a bit, I found that all POST requests were failing. I found a forum posting asking about POST requests and the solution there worked for me. That solution? Add a proxy_header line right before the proxy_pass line, exactly like the one in the example below.

server {
    listen       192.168.0.1:45080;
    server_name  foo.example.org;

    access_log  /path/to/log/nginx/post_bodies.log post_bodies;
    location / {
      ### add the following proxy_header line to get POSTs to work
      proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
      proxy_pass   http://10.1.2.3;
    }
}

(This is with nginx 1.2.1 for what it is worth.)