On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 03:26:30PM -0400, Jonathan Vanasco wrote:
> 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>

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location /paths/to/ {
    if ( !-f /etc/nginx/_flags/is_running ) {
        rewrite ^ /is_running last;
    }
}
location = /is_running {
    internal;
    return 404 'nothing\n';
}
=============================================

Does it work for you?

-- 
Cheers,
Oleg A. Mamontov

mailto: o...@mamontov.net

skype:  lonerr11
cell:   +7 (903) 798-1352

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