"down for maintenance" plugin?

I seem to remember there was a plugin for nginx would bypass all
requests and issue a single “down for maintenance” response, until a
certain file was removed/renamed.

I can’t find it on the wiki though. Was I imagining the plugin?

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We use this in the server section

if (-f /srv/www/maintenance.html) {
rewrite ^/(.*)$ /maintenance.html last;
break;
}

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Phillip B Oldham <

Does that work for all vhosts on the box? or do you have to add it into
each vhost config?

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On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:04:38PM +0100, Atif G. wrote:

We use this in the server section

if (-f /srv/www/maintenance.html) {
rewrite ^/(.*)$ /maintenance.html last;
break;
}

location / {
try_files /maintenance.html
$uri $uri/index.html $uri.html
@mongrel;
}

location @mongrel {
proxy_pass http://mongrel;
}

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 4:23 AM, Igor S. [email protected] wrote:

if (-f /srv/www/maintenance.html) {
rewrite ^/(.*)$ /maintenance.html last;
break;
}

location / {
try_files /maintenance.html
$uri $uri/index.html $uri.html
@mongrel;
}

this is cool but i like #1 better…

you could make a single file enable maintenance mode for -all-
websites on the server.

igor will try_files also work with 0.6.x?

On 16-Feb-09, at 3:04 AM, Atif G. wrote:

We use this in the server section

if (-f /srv/www/maintenance.html) {
rewrite ^/(.*)$ /maintenance.html last;
break;
}

What I use is the following:
location / {
fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/fcgi.socket;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
}
error_page 502 /maint.html;

My entire site is served from a FastCGI process, so when it’s down or
is restarting, any requests get sent to maint.html. 502 is only
thrown when nginx can’t access the back-end gateway (either FastCGI or
a proxy), so your maintenance page will only be shown when you’re
actually doing maintenance.

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 07:35:15PM +0100, Atif G. wrote:

igor will try_files also work with 0.6.x?

There is a patch:
http://sysoev.ru/nginx/patch.try_files.0.6.35.1

I plan to add it in 0.6.x after some 0.7.x releases.