On 11/3/11, Valentin V. Bartenev <i@vbart.ru> wrote:
> 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.

If you are willing to create some file for this you can just as well swap
nginx.conf with special maintenance config, where you can specify a single
server { } block with return 503 or anything you like.

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