It was thus said that the Great steve once stated: > > When performing maintenance on a server, I'd like to show a message > but not have it cached by a proxy or indexed by a search engine. The > best way I can see is to set a status code of 503 -- but there is no > way to do it within an apache http.conf file. Any advice? If you don't mind the default Apache 503 status message, you can do: Redirect 503 / within the <VirtualHost> directive, <Directory> directive, or .htaccess. However, if you want a personalized 503 response code, it can be done, but it's a bit more work. For instance: <VirtualHost 66.252.224.11> ServerName work.flummux.org ServerAdmin sean@xxxxxxxxxx DocumentRoot /home/spc/blog/htdocs CustomLog logs/work.flummux.org combined Redirect 503 /cgi-bin/ Redirect 503 /index.html Redirect 503 /index.rss Redirect 503 /2005 Redirect 503 /addentry.html ErrorDocument 400 /errors/400.shtml ErrorDocument 401 /errors/401.shtml ErrorDocument 402 /errors/402.shtml ErrorDocument 403 /errors/403.shtml ErrorDocument 404 /errors/404.shtml # ... ErrorDocument 503 /errors/503.shtml # ... </VirtualHost> I can't simply use "Redirect 503 /" since then the customized error pages won't show up, so I have to mask all the appropriate top level documents (and directories) with the specific Redirect directives. You might also want to do "RewriteEngine off" for the domain as well (that is, if you do use mod-rewrite) but that may end returning 404s for URLs that would otherwise normally exist, but that's something to play around with (the documentation for RewriteRule only mentions redirects). -spc --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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