Custom 503 Error Page

[Eden Li]

Try:

if (-f $document_root/system/maintenance.html) {
   rewrite ^(.*)$ @maintenance last;
}

location = @maintenance {
   error_page 503 /system/maintenance.html;
   return 503;
}

On Feb 3, 2008, at 7:18 AM, Douglas A. Seifert wrote:

> I am trying to use a test for the existence of a file to return a  
> error
> page with a 503 Temporarily Unavailable response code.  My  
> configuration
> is below.  The problem is that it does not work.  I can see the custom
> error page, but the HTTP status code is 200, not the desired 503.
>
> If I change the if directive  to this:
>
>    if (-f $document_root/system/maintenance.html) {
>      rewrite  ^(.*)$  /system/maintenance.html;  # No last
>      return 503;
>    }
>
> I start getting a 503 HTTP status code, but the content is not my  
> custom
> error page, but rather the default 503 response compiled into the  
> nginx
> server.
>
> Am I doing something terribly wrong?  I would really like to see my
> custom page with a real 503 HTTP status code.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Douglas A. Seifert
>
>
> nginx.conf:
> --------------------------------------------------
> # user and group to run as
> #user  www www;
>
> # number of nginx workers
> worker_processes  6;
>
> # pid of nginx master process
> pid /usr/local/www/nginx.pid;
>
> # Number of worker connections. 1024 is a good default
> events {
>  worker_connections 1024;
> }
>
> # start the http module where we config http access.
> http {
>  # pull in mime-types. You can break out your config
>  # into as many include's as you want to make it cleaner
>  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/mime.types;
>
>  # set a default type for the rare situation that
>  # nothing matches from the mimie-type include
>  default_type  application/octet-stream;
>
>  # configure log format
>  log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] '
>                  '"$request" $status  $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer"
> '
>                  '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
>
>  # main access log
>  access_log  /usr/local/www/log/nginx_access.log  main;
>
>  # main error log
>  error_log  /usr/local/www/log/nginx_error.log debug;
>
>  # no sendfile on OSX
>  sendfile on;
>
>  # These are good default values.
>  tcp_nopush        on;
>  tcp_nodelay       off;
>  # output compression saves bandwidth
>  gzip            on;
>  gzip_http_version 1.0;
>  gzip_comp_level 2;
>  gzip_proxied any;
>  gzip_types      text/plain text/html text/css application/x- 
> javascript
> text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
>
> server {
>
>    # port to listen on. Can also be set to an IP:PORT
>    listen *:8080;
>
>    # Set the max size for file uploads to 50Mb
>    client_max_body_size 50M;
>
>    # sets the domain[s] that this vhost server requests for
>    server_name .foo.com *;
>
>    # doc root
>    root /usr/local/www/test;
>
>    # vhost specific access log
>    access_log  /usr/local/www/log/nginx.vhost.access.log  main;
>
>    # this rewrites all the requests to the maintenance.html
>    # page if it exists in the doc root. This is for capistrano's
>    # disable web task
>    if (-f $document_root/system/maintenance.html) {
>      rewrite  ^(.*)$  /system/maintenance.html last;
>      return 503;
>    }
>
>    location / {
>      root /usr/local/www/test;
>    }
>
>    error_page   500 502 504  /500.html;
>    error_page   503 /503.html;
>  }
>
> }
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>