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jasona_40790
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Jun 14, 2012

need to rewrite HTTP 200 status code to HTTP 503

Hello,     I am performing website maintenance and need to bring down our website for a few hours. I will be   serving a friendly maintenance page during this time. However, when Google...
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hooleylist
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Jun 14, 2012
Hi Jason,

Do you see any errors in /var/log/ltm when you test that iRule? Are there other iRules or HTTP profile config options that might be sending a redirect? If so, you could disable all other iRules when you're using the maintenance iRule using event disable all: 


 https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.event.ashx
when HTTP_REQUEST {
   HTTP::respond 503 noserver Retry-After: 10800
   event disable all
}

Aaron