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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by bc...@rsn.hp.com on 2001/11/30 19:20:10 UTC
"come back later" page service
hello,
let's say you have a website that you know you will bring down every week
at a
particular time, and you want to inform the user with a nice html page
(might be static) stating "we are doing maintenance , please come back
later" or the like.
the problem is that it should display the page whatever page is requested:
whatever path, also either static or dynamic.
what are the options , please ?
i surely do not want to reinvent the wheel ;-)
thx,
Ben-
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Re: "come back later" page service
Posted by "Trever M. Shick" <ts...@objectwave.com>.
We did this with an apache server acting as a reverse proxy. Proxy A would
proxy to Server B. then on proxy A we set up an error document for an error
401 which was local (401 being a local proxy error).
This way, the proxy would forward the request to server a, but if it
couldn't connect, it would fail to the error document which had a message
that the server was undergoing temporary maintenance.
It works well.
----- Original Message -----
From: <bc...@rsn.hp.com>
To: <us...@httpd.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 11:20 AM
Subject: "come back later" page service
> hello,
>
> let's say you have a website that you know you will bring down every week
> at a
> particular time, and you want to inform the user with a nice html page
> (might be static) stating "we are doing maintenance , please come back
> later" or the like.
>
> the problem is that it should display the page whatever page is requested:
> whatever path, also either static or dynamic.
>
> what are the options , please ?
>
> i surely do not want to reinvent the wheel ;-)
>
> thx,
> Ben-
>
>
>
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Re: "come back later" page service
Posted by Steven Pierce <pa...@speakeasy.net>.
Thank you for explaining that to me. I am kind of new to Apache. That was
something that I had wondered about.
S
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On 11/30/2001 at 1:06 PM Trever M. Shick wrote:
>The proxy server setup in my previous message is dynamic, so that would
>work. The error message that results from the server being down is handled
>by the ErrorDocument directive on the proxy server.
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Steven Pierce" <pa...@speakeasy.net>
>To: <us...@httpd.apache.org>
>Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 1:00 PM
>Subject: Re: "come back later" page service
>
>
>>
>> Joshua,
>>
>> Watching this conversation: from what I can see is that if you need
>> to meet the conditions that are being asked. You would need to edit
>> the page each time you did maintaince to the server? I believe from what
>> I heard it was something that he needed to be automatic. Is that not an
>> option??
>>
>> Steven
>>
>> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
>>
>> On 11/30/2001 at 2:59 PM Joshua Slive wrote:
>>
>> >On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 bciceron@rsn.hp.com wrote:
>> >
>> >> the problem is that it should display the page whatever page is
>> >requested:
>> >> whatever path, also either static or dynamic.
>> >>
>> >
>> >There are lots of ways to do this. Here's one:
>> >
>> ><Location />
>> >Order allow,deny
>> >deny from all
>> >ErrorDocument 403 /come_back_later.html
>> ></Location>
>> >
>> >Here's another:
>> >
>> >AliasMatch .* /path_to/come_back_later.html
>> >
>> >Joshua.
>> >
>> >
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Re: "come back later" page service
Posted by "Trever M. Shick" <ts...@objectwave.com>.
The proxy server setup in my previous message is dynamic, so that would
work. The error message that results from the server being down is handled
by the ErrorDocument directive on the proxy server.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Pierce" <pa...@speakeasy.net>
To: <us...@httpd.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: "come back later" page service
>
> Joshua,
>
> Watching this conversation: from what I can see is that if you need
> to meet the conditions that are being asked. You would need to edit
> the page each time you did maintaince to the server? I believe from what
> I heard it was something that he needed to be automatic. Is that not an
> option??
>
> Steven
>
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
>
> On 11/30/2001 at 2:59 PM Joshua Slive wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 bciceron@rsn.hp.com wrote:
> >
> >> the problem is that it should display the page whatever page is
> >requested:
> >> whatever path, also either static or dynamic.
> >>
> >
> >There are lots of ways to do this. Here's one:
> >
> ><Location />
> >Order allow,deny
> >deny from all
> >ErrorDocument 403 /come_back_later.html
> ></Location>
> >
> >Here's another:
> >
> >AliasMatch .* /path_to/come_back_later.html
> >
> >Joshua.
> >
> >
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Re: "come back later" page service
Posted by Steven Pierce <pa...@speakeasy.net>.
Joshua,
Watching this conversation: from what I can see is that if you need
to meet the conditions that are being asked. You would need to edit
the page each time you did maintaince to the server? I believe from what
I heard it was something that he needed to be automatic. Is that not an
option??
Steven
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On 11/30/2001 at 2:59 PM Joshua Slive wrote:
>On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 bciceron@rsn.hp.com wrote:
>
>> the problem is that it should display the page whatever page is
>requested:
>> whatever path, also either static or dynamic.
>>
>
>There are lots of ways to do this. Here's one:
>
><Location />
>Order allow,deny
>deny from all
>ErrorDocument 403 /come_back_later.html
></Location>
>
>Here's another:
>
>AliasMatch .* /path_to/come_back_later.html
>
>Joshua.
>
>
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Re: "come back later" page service : thx !
Posted by bc...@rsn.hp.com.
thx to everybody, we got it to work !
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Joshua Slive wrote:
--
-- On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 bciceron@rsn.hp.com wrote:
--
-- > the problem is that it should display the page whatever page is requested:
-- > whatever path, also either static or dynamic.
-- >
--
-- There are lots of ways to do this. Here's one:
--
-- <Location />
-- Order allow,deny
-- deny from all
-- ErrorDocument 403 /come_back_later.html
-- </Location>
--
-- Here's another:
--
-- AliasMatch .* /path_to/come_back_later.html
--
-- Joshua.
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Re: "come back later" page service
Posted by Joshua Slive <jo...@slive.ca>.
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 bciceron@rsn.hp.com wrote:
> the problem is that it should display the page whatever page is requested:
> whatever path, also either static or dynamic.
>
There are lots of ways to do this. Here's one:
<Location />
Order allow,deny
deny from all
ErrorDocument 403 /come_back_later.html
</Location>
Here's another:
AliasMatch .* /path_to/come_back_later.html
Joshua.
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