Using the Drupal Maintenance Page Behind nginx
I have a site where the standard Drupal maintenance page is the simplest way to communicate short periods of down time with. our users.
The problem is that when Drupal emits a maintenance page, it attaches a status of 503. AFAICT, this is the same error status a lot of nginx configurations use to indicate that your PHP-FPM instances have passed away and ceased to pine for the fyords :-)
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About the speaker
Brian Gupta has 14+ years experience in the IT space in a variety of roles, including: network engineering, system administration, storage administration, High availability deployments, IT management. Currently Brian is passionate about open source projects and mobile technology. (Especially where the two meet: e.g. Android)
Brian founded Brandorr Group LLC, an operations consulting company that is also an Amazon Web Services partner: http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/solution-providers/brandorr/
Drupal demos (25 mins)
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