On Friday 04 November 2011 01:02:11 António P. P. Almeida wrote:
> Why not this?
>
> root /var/www;
>
> location / {
>
> error_page 503 @unavailable;
>
> location @unavailable {
> try_files /during_building.html @503;
> }
> }
>
> location @503 {
> return 503;
> }
>
> No need to use the if and the internal is implicit on the try_files.

First of all, named locations can be on the server level only.

And, how does a request get into @unavailable? Only after 503 has occurred.
But, what will cause it?

I think the main idea was: when we need to do some maintenance, we just create
a specific file (probably with explaining message for users) and Nginx starts
to return 503 on every request.

wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev

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