Switches in configuration files?

[Rt Ibmer]

Hello everyone - any thoughts on the below post? Thank you.

> Is there a way to create a variable in the config file that
> I can set to true or false (or 1 or 2, etc) and then make my
> location blocks do an IF operation based on that var to take
> different actions in the block.
> 
> For instance this is what I currently have:
> 
>  location ~* /maindir/area1 {
>         error_page   500
> 502 503 504  /service-is-down.html;
> 
>         access_log  /main.log
> main;
>         proxy_pass  http://my_farm;
> 
>         # To temporarily take service
> offline, comment out the 2 lines above, and remove the
> comments from below.
>         # The incoming requests will
> then be logged for manual later handling.
>         # access_log 
> /deferred.log main;
>         # empty_gif;
>         # expires -1d;
>     }
> 
> And instead I'd rather have something like this:
> 
>  location ~* /maindir/area1 {
>         error_page   500
> 502 503 504  /service-is-down.html;
> 
>      if(inMaintenanceMode == true) {
>         access_log  /main.log
> main;
>         proxy_pass  http://my_farm;
>      }
>      else
>      {
>         access_log  /deferred.log
> main;
>         empty_gif;
>         expires -1d;
>      }
>     }
> 
> Can this sort of thing be done and if so can someone please
> demonstrate with a tiny snippet? Thanks!
> 
> 
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