On Thursday 03 November 2011 22:30:00 Quintin Par wrote:
[...]
> This method outside of `location` directive
> 
>  error_page 503 /var/www/during_build.html;
> 
>  ## System Maintenance (Service Unavailable)
>  if (-f  /var/www/during_build.html) {
>      return 503;
>  }
> 
> Is also not working. Nginx just returns 503 without the custom page.
> 
> What is the correct way to show system down pages?
> 

Try this one:


error_page 503 /during_build.html;
    location / {
        if (-f /var/www/during_build.html) {
            return 503;
        }
    }
    location = /during_build.html {
        root /var/www/;
        internal;
    }

wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev

log_format backend_json '{proxy:\'$remote_addr\', '
                'remote_addr:\'$http_x_forwarded_for\',http_user:\'$remote_user\', '
                'request_timestamp: \'$time_iso8601\',request:\'$request\',status:\'$status\','
                'request_size:\'$body_bytes_sent\',referer:\'$http_referer\','
                'user_agent:\'$http_user_agent\'}';

log_format csv2
        '"$remote_addr",'
        '"$http_x_forwarded_for",'
        '$status,'
        '$request_time,'
        '"$http_host",'
        '"$server_addr",'
        '"$scheme",'
        '"$time_iso8601",'
        '$bytes_sent,'
        '"$request",'
        '"$http_referer",'
        '"$http_user_agent"';

access_log  /var/log/nginx/site-access.log csv2;