I found that the common configuration available on the Internet didn't work for me. Specifically, the Apache Rewrite rule needs to reference DOCUMENT_ROOT. Here are my rewrite rules; remember that for this to work, they have to be first:
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Better Capistrano Rewrite Rule for Maintenance Page
Capistrano comes with a nice little tasked called deploy:web:disable that puts up a maintenance page on your site. Assuming your webserver detects the presence of this page and rewrites any requests to display that page, this effectively disables your site. Very handy.
I found that the common configuration available on the Internet didn't work for me. Specifically, the Apache Rewrite rule needs to reference DOCUMENT_ROOT. Here are my rewrite rules; remember that for this to work, they have to be first:
I found that the common configuration available on the Internet didn't work for me. Specifically, the Apache Rewrite rule needs to reference DOCUMENT_ROOT. Here are my rewrite rules; remember that for this to work, they have to be first:
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I like to slap in a line to let through css + images too, so maintenance pages can be a bit pretty. I put the following just before your lines above:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(css|jpg|png|gif)$
That's very timely Dr. Nic, as I was just today about to code a custom maintenance page and I'm sure that would have tripped me up. Thanks!
You should prepend "system" with a "/" because the DocumentRoot should be specified without a trailing slash.
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