"down for maintenance" plugin?

[Phillip B Oldham]

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

Atif Ghaffar wrote:
> 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 
> <phill at theactivitypeople.co.uk <mailto:phill at theactivitypeople.co.uk>> 
> wrote:
>
>     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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