Serve 502 and 504 error pages directly from the origin.

quick question guys, how does that work? i fail to understand how to serve error page from origin if you got 502 bad gateway and 504 timeout.
i did try to read the documentation but nothing mention this subject.
you can find it on Zone level > Error Page [New]
thank you, have a nice day.

SuperHelpflare•9/26/25, 2:02 AM

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Aaguagu quick question guys, how does that work? i fail to understand how to serve error...

Chaika•9/26/25, 2:13 AM

Your origin can respond with those status codes. A popular example is nginx reverse proxying to an internal service, and it failing to connect and thus 502 gateway. With that disabled, you'll get a Cloudflare version of the 502 page. With that enabled, you'll see the response sent from your origin alongside the 502

Chaika•9/26/25, 2:14 AM

obv for errors where it can entirely not connect to your origin (like 521/522), it can't show an origin response, but those are noted as exclusions

CChaika Your origin can respond with those status codes. A popular example is nginx reve...

aguaguOP•9/26/25, 2:34 AM

aaah, i get that, thanks mate now i understand

Serve 502 and 504 error pages directly from the origin.

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