John,<br><br>See Ezra's response in the thread here:<br><a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.nginx.english/8978/focus=8990">http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.nginx.english/8978/focus=8990</a><br><br>That explanation is just for a single downtime notice, but you can use a variation of his solution to accomplish what you want. For example:<br>
<br>server {<br> ...<br> if (-f $document_root/system/back_soon.html) {<br> rewrite ^(.*)$ /system/back_soon.html last;<br> break;<br> }<br>
if (-f $document_root/system/down_for_a_while.html) {<br>
rewrite ^(.*)$ /system/down_for_a_while.html last;<br>
break;<br>
}<br> ...<br>}<br><br>This will show the back_soon.html page if it exists. If it doesn't exist and the down_for_a_while.html page does, then that will be displayed. Otherwise, processing will continue normally.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Resicow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:resicow@gmail.com">resicow@gmail.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;">
Hello Nginx Community, and Happy New Year...<br>
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Is it possible to set the value of a variable based on the contents of a text file?<br>
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So if there is site downtime, I can place a file in a directory that nginx will see and will know to serve a downtime notice, but then can nginx read the contents of the file to determine which downtime notice to serve?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
<br>
John<br>
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