RFC2616, 503 Service Unavailable
The server is currently unable to handle the request due to a temporary overloading or maintenance of the server
How to configure Apache 2.2 to serve particular name based virtualhost 503 code with custom HTML page?
You could use mod_rewrite:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} !=503
RewriteRule !^/down/for/maintenance$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}down/for/maintenance [L,R=503]
The RewriteCond
directive makes sure that no additional internal error occurs when redirecting to a custom error document.
503 Temporarily Unavailable, with trigger
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} !=503
RewriteCond "/srv/www/example.com/maintenance.trigger" -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1 [R=503,L]
If the maintenance.trigger
file exists, Apache will serve up a 503 Service Unavailable
response. To serve up a custom "down for maintenance" page, use ErrorDocument
to specify the file, like so:
ErrorDocument 503 /503_with_cats.html
Enjoy!
@temoto
To specify a 503 for bots and a maintenance page for humans, try the following
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
#for bots such as google
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*(Googlebot|Googlebot|Mediapartners|Adsbot|Feedfetcher|bingbot)-?(Google|Image)? [NC]
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} !=503
RewriteRule !^/down/for/maintenance$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}down/for/maintenance [L,R=503]
#for humans
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !^1\.1\.1\.1
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/maint.html [NC]
RewriteRule .* /maint.html [R=302,L]