Set Variable from Content of Text File?

[Nick Pearson]

John,

See Ezra's response in the thread here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.nginx.english/8978/focus=8990

That explanation is just for a single downtime notice, but you can use a
variation of his solution to accomplish what you want.  For example:

server {
    ...
    if (-f $document_root/system/back_soon.html) {
        rewrite  ^(.*)$  /system/back_soon.html last;
        break;
    }
    if (-f $document_root/system/down_for_a_while.html) {
        rewrite  ^(.*)$  /system/down_for_a_while.html last;
        break;
    }
    ...
}

This will show the back_soon.html page if it exists.  If it doesn't exist
and the down_for_a_while.html page does, then that will be displayed.
Otherwise, processing will continue normally.


On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Resicow <resicow at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Nginx Community, and Happy New Year...
>
> Is it possible to set the value of a variable based on the contents of a
> text file?
>
> So if there is site downtime, I can place a file in a directory that nginx
> will see and will know to serve a downtime notice, but then can nginx read
> the contents of the file to determine which downtime notice to serve?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
>
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