What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Run nginx for a while 2. Import about 80 rules from error log parsing 3. Open http://127.0.0.1:8081/get_rules

What is the expected output?

all rules...

What do you see instead?

Request did not return a string

Request:

<GET /get_rules HTTP/1.1>

Resource: <twisted.web._auth.wrapper.ResourceWrapper object at 0xa763d0c>

Value: None

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

0.46 as well as current trunk

Please provide your nginx configuration any additional information below.

Ubuntu 12.04 nginx 1.2.6

I forgot to add the core rules to the nginx config... maybe a nicer error message would help here...