Yes, it sets up a location that you are most likely never going to use. It appears to be convention within nginx configurations. I don't know when it started, but I've seen it on this list for some time now. I am pretty sure that you could use other special characters if you wanted, too, it's just a character to nginx.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Jonathan Vanasco <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nginx@2xlp.com">nginx@2xlp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On Dec 28, 2008, at 2:58 PM, Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:<br>
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error_page 503 @503;<br>
location @503 {<br>
rewrite ^(.*)$ /system/maintenance.html break;<br>
}<br>
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forgive my constant questions on this...<br>
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can you explain the @ ?<br>
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its not in the docs anywhere.<br>
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a friend thinks it might be a namespace that you know you aren't using.<br>
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just trying to figure this out, as I can't seem to trigger the custom error and i think that might be part of it.<br>
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