[Tracker-discuss] [issue80] Make it easy to display "down for maintenance" page, prerrably with a http status code that tells searchengines not to reindex page (503?)

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis added the comment:

For taking down the website, one way is to use the Apache asis module, e.g. 
putting the attached file 'down' in a directory /www/asis, the adding a 
configuration block

<Directory /www/asis>
 SetHandler send-as-is
</Directory>

On server outage, add

Alias /foo /www/asis/down

This will report all URLs below /foo as in-maintenance, with a status code of 
503.

Alternatively, a CGI script could generate the Status: output; the asis file is 
parsed as if generated by a CGI script.

Not sure what happens to incoming email while the roundup instance is stopped.

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