I have some servers where I use an old method of gating a path by using a file check.
this allows staff to turn off certain locations during migrations/updates without having root privileges (needed to restart nginx) an issue I noticed– this method now (perhaps always) shows the name of the location on the default 404 template [the response that nginx generates via code, not a template on the fs] Does anyone know how to disable showing the location without defining a custom template on the filesystem? or perhaps someone can think of a better way to accomplish my goals? location /paths/to/ { if (!-f /etc/nginx/_flags/is_running) { rewrite ^.*$ @is_running break; } } location = @is_running { return 404; } ======= that generates this <html> <head> <title>404 Not Found</title> </head> <body> <h1>404 Not Found</h1> The resource could not be found.<br/><br/> /@is_running </body> </html> _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx