How to Redirect request to Static Maintenance page

[Milind N]

Hi All,

I am not regular user of IBM Http server, We have IBM Http server acting as a front to our application running on WAS.

For some maintenance activities on WAS we want to redirect user to a maintenance page by the time we do activities on our server. At the time of our activity server may be started or may be stopped. So not really wants to bind it with server status.

I really appriciate any help and guidance on this.

Regards,
Milind N

[Sunit Patke]

Create a different httpd.conf file configuring the HTTP server to always
point to the maintenance page.
At the start of the window, start the HTTP server with this conf file
At the end of the window start with the normal httpd.conf

- Sunit

"Milind N" <milin...@yahoo.co.in> wrote in message
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[Rejoice]

It would be good to write a re-write rule in the existing httpd.conf
file and recycle the ihs

regards
Rejoice

On Nov 11, 1:20 pm, "Sunit Patke" <supa...@nospam.com> wrote:
> Create a different httpd.conf file configuring the HTTP server to always
> point to the maintenance page.
> At the start of the window, start the HTTP server with this conf file
> At the end of the window start with the normal httpd.conf
>
> - Sunit
>

> "Milind N" <milind_...@yahoo.co.in> wrote in message

>
> news:823052086.1257944766434.JavaMail.wassrvr@ltsgwas010...
>
>
>
> > Hi All,
>
> > I am not regular user of IBM Http server, We have IBM Http server acting
> > as a front to our application running on WAS.
>
> > For some maintenance activities on WAS we want to redirect user to a
> > maintenance page by the time we do activities on our server. At the time
> > of our activity server may be started or may be stopped. So not really
> > wants to bind it with server status.
>
> > I really appriciate any help and guidance on this.
>
> > Regards,

> > Milind N- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

[Eric Covener]

Use mod_rewrite to check for the existence of a file in your filesystem, and redirect to a URL not covered by your plugin-cfg.xml context routes.

In each vhost:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond /opt/IHS/htdocs/maintenance.html -f
RewrieRule .* /maintenance.html [R]

If you have a /* context route defined, you may need to tell IHS to listen on a high port and instead proxy to to that instance. This is required to prevent going into the ebSphere Plugin

[asifk...@gmail.com]

First time I am implmenting maintenance page on IBM HTTP server,
I have implemented in same manner what you suggested. But its not working. It's still going to my application page.
Below code written in httpd.conf file:
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{DocumentRoot}/serverdown.txt -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /maintenance.html [PT]

I have created maintenance.html and serverdown.txt in DocumentRoot folder.

want to know few thing:
Will this work with http and https both request?
Do I need to keep this code on any specific place in httpd.conf?

Please help, what I am missing.

Thanks.

Regards,
-Asif