nginx 1.0.9 *) Change: now the 0x7F-0x1F characters are escaped as \xXX in an access_log. *) Change: now SIGWINCH signal works only in daemon mode. *) 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. *) Feature: accept filters are now supported on NetBSD. *) Feature: the "uwsgi_buffering" and "scgi_buffering" directives. Thanks to Peter Smit. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred on start or while reconfiguration if the "ssl" directive was used at http level and there was no "ssl_certificate" defined. *) 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. *) Bugfix: non-cacheable responses might be cached if "proxy_cache_bypass" directive was used. Thanks to John Ferlito. *) Bugfix: cached responses with an empty body were returned incorrectly; the bug had appeared in 0.8.31. *) Bugfix: 201 responses of the ngx_http_dav_module were incorrect; the bug had appeared in 0.8.32. *) Bugfix: in the "return" directive. *) Bugfix: the "ssl_verify_client", "ssl_verify_depth", and "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers" directives might work incorrectly if SNI was used.

--- 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) {
@@ -167,8 +179,8 @@ ngx_http_rewrite_handler(ngx_http_reques
         code(e);
     }
 
-    if (e->status == NGX_DECLINED) {
-        return NGX_DECLINED;
+    if (e->status < NGX_HTTP_BAD_REQUEST) {
+        return e->status;
     }
 
     if (r->err_status == 0) {