could not find named location

[mark-hahn]

I'm getting this error: could not find named location "http://localhost:81". The value, http://localhost:81, is the identical location I use for proxy_pass and it works fine.

My full config is:

server {
    listen       80;

    location ~* \/(favicon.ico$|apple-tou.*|robots.txt$) {
        root /ria/src/views/images/favicons;
    } 

    location ~ /(common/|views/(js|css)/|views/images/|views/pages/[^/]+_client\.js$|notification/images/).* {
        root /ria/src;
    }

    location ~ \/ria\/.*(\.jpg|\.jpeg|\.gif|\.png)$$ {
        proxy_pass          http://localhost:5984;
        proxy_set_header    X-Real-IP  $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header    Authorization "Basic cm9vdDp0Ymdjb21wczI=";
    }

    location / {
        proxy_pass          http://localhost:81;
        proxy_set_header    X-Real-IP  $remote_addr;
    }

    location /upload {
        client_max_body_size    0;
        upload_max_file_size    0;
        upload_pass             http://localhost:81;
        upload_store            /mnt/uploads 1;

        upload_set_form_field $upload_field_name.name "$upload_file_name";
        upload_set_form_field $upload_field_name.path "$upload_tmp_path";
        upload_aggregate_form_field "$upload_field_name.sha1" "$upload_file_sha1";
        upload_aggregate_form_field "$upload_field_name.size" "$upload_file_size";
        #upload_pass_form_field "^fallback$|^login$|^usession$";
        upload_cleanup 400 404 499 500-505;
    }

    # Stop Image and Document Hijacking
    location ~* (\.jpg|\.jpeg|\.gif|\.png)$ {
        if ($http_referer !~ ^(https?:\/\/[^\/]*comps2.info) ) {
            return 444;
        }
    }

    error_page 500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
    location = /50x.html {
        root   /ria/etc/nginx/html;
    }
    #error_page  404              /404.html;
    #charset koi8-r;
}

[mark-hahn]

I fixed the problem by using a location of '/', which is then handled by proxy_pass. This should be documented somewhere.

[vkholodkov]

Only realtive paths can be used as the argument of upload_pass directive.