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Nginx maintenance redirect when a specific file exists
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| server { | |
| listen 80; | |
| server_name mysite.com; | |
| root /var/www/mysite.com/; | |
| location / { | |
| if (-f $document_root/maintenance.html) { | |
| return 503; | |
| } | |
| ... # the rest of your config goes here | |
| } | |
| error_page 503 @maintenance; | |
| location @maintenance { | |
| rewrite ^(.*)$ /maintenance.html break; | |
| } | |
| } |
How to exempt an ip address?
Why using rewrite where you could use try_files /maintenance.html =404; ?
Source: https://www.nginx.com/blog/creating-nginx-rewrite-rules/
@fboutin-pmc because try_files will serve the file with HTTP status code 200, and that's not nice for search engines and the likes.
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Finally! This is good and working solution, thank you for this.