how can i quickly handle alternate config for site downtime?

[Jonathan Vanasco]

On Dec 26, 2008, at 4:59 PM, Corey Donohoe wrote:

> Is this other config file pointing tosome kind of status page that
> says "findmeon.com is down right now!" or something similar?  If it
> is, you prolly wanna investigate maintenance pages and have them
> return 503s during the downtime.
>
> http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/141251

hmm....  that could work.

would you be able to share those 2 snippets you listed as a pastie  
again ?  they expired ( as did your old link at http:// 
forum.engineyard.com/forums/3/topics/22 )

also - just to be sure about this... you're triggering a downtime  
response just by a file-existence check, right?