hi, is there a way to use nginx to publish the maintenance file

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 06:41:05PM +0800, Space Lee wrote:

> Hi, a strange thing, I found try_files won't work in the server context, only work in the location context. 
> 
> I have a sample like this 
> try_files /maintenance.html $uri $uri/
> location / {
> 	XXXX
> }
> 
> then it won't work, but if I move the try_files into the location
> 
> location / {
> 	try_files /maintenance.html $uri $uri/
> 	XXXX
> }
> 
> then it works for root directory. 

Yes, this is expected behaviour.  Directive "try_files" isn't 
inherited and only make sense at server level if there is no 
matching location (that is, if implicit server location used to 
process request). 

Maxim Dounin