nginx 1.1.6 *) Change in internal API: now module context data are cleared while internal redirect to named location. Requested by Yichun Zhang. *) Change: if a server in an upstream failed, only one request will be sent to it after fail_timeout; the server will be considered alive if it will successfully respond to the request. *) Change: now the 0x7F-0x1F characters are escaped as \xXX in an access_log. *) Feature: "proxy/fastcgi/scgi/uwsgi_ignore_headers" directives support the following additional values: X-Accel-Limit-Rate, X-Accel-Buffering, X-Accel-Charset. *) Feature: decrease of memory consumption if SSL is used. *) Bugfix: some UTF-8 characters were processed incorrectly. Thanks to Alexey Kuts. *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_rewrite_module directives specified at "server" level were executed twice if no matching locations were defined. *) Bugfix: a socket leak might occurred if "aio sendfile" was used. *) Bugfix: connections with fast clients might be closed after send_timeout if file AIO was used. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_autoindex_module. *) Bugfix: the module ngx_http_mp4_module did not support seeking on 32-bit platforms.

--- a/src/http/modules/ngx_http_rewrite_module.c
+++ b/src/http/modules/ngx_http_rewrite_module.c
@@ -135,10 +135,22 @@ ngx_module_t  ngx_http_rewrite_module = 
 static ngx_int_t
 ngx_http_rewrite_handler(ngx_http_request_t *r)
 {
+    ngx_int_t                     index;
     ngx_http_script_code_pt       code;
     ngx_http_script_engine_t     *e;
+    ngx_http_core_srv_conf_t     *cscf;
+    ngx_http_core_main_conf_t    *cmcf;
     ngx_http_rewrite_loc_conf_t  *rlcf;
 
+    cmcf = ngx_http_get_module_main_conf(r, ngx_http_core_module);
+    cscf = ngx_http_get_module_srv_conf(r, ngx_http_core_module);
+    index = cmcf->phase_engine.location_rewrite_index;
+
+    if (r->phase_handler == index && r->loc_conf == cscf->ctx->loc_conf) {
+        /* skipping location rewrite phase for server null location */
+        return NGX_DECLINED;
+    }
+
     rlcf = ngx_http_get_module_loc_conf(r, ngx_http_rewrite_module);
 
     if (rlcf->codes == NULL) {