Custom 503 Error Page

[Douglas A. Seifert]

On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 04:20 +0300, Maxim Dounin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 05:08:29PM -0800, Douglas A. Seifert wrote:
> 
> >
> >> >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.
> >> 
> >> If you want to use custom response for 503 error, you should write
> >> 
> >>       error_page 503 /system/maintenance.html;
> >> 
> >> in your config.
> >> 
> >
> >Thanks for the response.  Unfortunately, however, that has no effect.  I still see the compiled in 503 content.
> 
> Probably because you have error_page 503 redefined later in your 
> config to /503.html.
> 
Maxim,
Thanks for trying, but it doesn't matter where in the config the
error_page directive is placed, the result is the same: a 503 response
with the compiled in 503 content.

Thanks,
Doug Seifert