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DaytonG_131489
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Oct 09, 2013Serve maintenance page if file exists
We are hoping to let our developers control turning on maintenance pages for their sites. We were hoping that we could check for the existence of a file in (or outside) the application to determine w...
DaytonG_131489
Nimbostratus
Oct 09, 2013This definitely got us going in the right direction.
We ended up creating an additional pool with a monitor that tests for the existence of the file. We then deployed an iRule that checked the status of that new pool to determine whether or not to display a maintenance page. This is probably less costly than doing a get with each request. We'll let the monitor take care of that.
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