I figured out why the below didnt work for me.
I left out one key point about root /some/path;
We are actually doing:
set $root $base/public;
root $root;
because conf files are shared by multiple sites. this way each site
set $base
and it gets reused in different places... to make the below work, with
that
i need to change
if ( $site_maintenance )
{
root /maintenance/path;
rewrite (.*) /maintenance/index.html;
}
to
if ( $site_maintenance )
{
set $root /maintenance/path;
rewrite (.*) /maintenance/index.html
}
which is TOTALLY not how I expected variables to work.
is this documented somewhere?
that if you set root with a variable, to later change root you have
to change the value of the variable and that using root will have no
effect?
ok, well better put on root is recognized, a second isnt.
have this setup ( lots of snipping here... )
root /some/path;
....
location /
{
if ( -f /tmp/.maintenance )
{
set $site_maintenance 1;
}
if ( $site_maintenance )
{
root /maintenance/path;
rewrite (.*) /maintenance/index.html;
}
}
problem is... the rewrite works just fine but its trying to serve
/some/path/maintenance/index.html
instead of
/maintenance/path/maintenance/index.html
any idea why?
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