Correct way to setup maintenance page in nginx

[Quintin Par]

On second thought don’t you think the file check in the “if” condition is
expensive considering it will be executed on every hit?

-Quintin

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Quintin Par <quintinpar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Valentin. This worked like a charm.
>
> I spend nearly 2-3 hours trying for a solution that evaded “if” and just
> “try_files”. Even the official wiki supported that.
>
> There are a lot of solutions out in the wild and most for them don’t work.
> Thanks again for the help.
>
>  -Quintin
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Valentin V. Bartenev <i at vbart.ru> wrote:
>
>> location = /during_build.html {
>>        root /var/www/;
>>        internal;
>>    }
>>
>
>
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