nginx 0.6.33 *) Feature: now nginx returns the 405 status code for POST method requesting a static file only if the file exists. *) Workaround: compatibility with glibc 2.3. Thanks to Eric Benson and Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: the resolver did not understand big DNS responses. Thanks to Zyb. *) Bugfix: in HTTPS mode requests might fail with the "bad write retry" error. *) Bugfix: the ngx_http_charset_module did not understand quoted charset name received from backend. *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails=0" parameter was used in upstream with several servers, then a worker process exited on a SIGFPE signal. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in() method did not return value of the "Host", "User-Agent", and "Connection" request header lines; the bug had appeared in 0.6.32. *) Bugfix: a full response was returned for request method HEAD while redirection via an "error_page" directive. *) Bugfix: if a directory has search only rights and the first index file was absent, then nginx returned the 500 status code. *) Bugfix: of recursive error_page for 500 status code.

--- a/src/http/modules/ngx_http_index_module.c
+++ b/src/http/modules/ngx_http_index_module.c
@@ -306,6 +306,19 @@ ngx_http_index_test_dir(ngx_http_request
                 return ngx_http_index_error(r, dir.data, NGX_ENOENT);
             }
 
+            if (of.err == NGX_EACCES) {
+
+                *last = c;
+
+                /*
+                 * ngx_http_index_test_dir() is called after the first index
+                 * file testing has returned an error distinct from NGX_EACCES.
+                 * This means that directory searching is allowed.
+                 */
+
+                return NGX_OK;
+            }
+
             ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_CRIT, r->connection->log, of.err,
                           ngx_open_file_n " \"%s\" failed", dir.data);
         }