I learned how to get NGINX to return 503
customer error pages,
but I cannot find out how to do the following:
Sample config file:
location / {
root www;
index index.php;
try_files /503.html =503;
}
error_page 503 /503.html;
location = /503.html {
root www;
}
As you can see, according to the code above, if a page called 503.html
is found in my root directory, the site will return this page to the user.
But it seems that although the code above works when someone simply visits my site typing
it does not trap requests like:
- http://www.example.com/profile.php
With my code, the user can still see the profile page or any other pages besides index.php
.
The question:
How do I trap requests to all pages in my site and forward them to 503.html
whenever 503.html
is present in my root folder?
Updated: changed "if -f" to "try_files".
Try this:
server {
listen 80;
server_name mysite.com;
root /var/www/mysite.com/;
location / {
try_files /maintenance.html $uri $uri/ @maintenance;
# When maintenance ends, just mv maintenance.html from $root
... # the rest of your config goes here
}
location @maintenance {
return 503;
}
}
More info:
https://serverfault.com/questions/18994/nginx-best-practices
http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule#try_files
The below configuration works for close to the latest stable nginx 1.2.4
.
I could not find a way to enable a maintenance page with out using an if
but apparently according to IfIsEvil it is an ok if
.
- To enable maintenance
touch /srv/sites/blah/public/maintenance.enable
. You can rm
the file to disable.
- Error
502
will be mapped to 503
which is what most people want. You don't want to give Google a 502
.
- Custom
502
and 503
pages. Your app will generate the other error pages.
There are other configurations on the web but they didn't seem to work on the latest nginx.
server {
listen 80;
server_name blah.com;
access_log /srv/sites/blah/logs/access.log;
error_log /srv/sites/blah/logs/error.log;
root /srv/sites/blah/public/;
index index.html;
location / {
if (-f $document_root/maintenance.enable) {
return 503;
}
try_files /override.html @tomcat;
}
location = /502.html {
}
location @maintenance {
rewrite ^(.*)$ /maintenance.html break;
}
error_page 503 @maintenance;
error_page 502 =503 /502.html;
location @tomcat {
client_max_body_size 50M;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_set_header Referer $http_referer;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto http;
proxy_pass http://tomcat;
proxy_redirect off;
}
}
The other answers are both correct, but just to add, that if you use internal proxies you also need to add proxy_intercept_errors on;
on one of your proxy servers.
So for example...
proxy_intercept_errors on;
root /var/www/site.com/public;
error_page 503 @503;
location @503 {
rewrite ^(.*)$ /scripts/503.html break;
}