I found the answer to my own question. So in case anyone else finds it
useful:
Instead of using the WSGIScriptAlias directive you can use
WSGIScriptAliasMatch which allows for regular expressions. Then I used a
negative lookahead to exclude any paths beginning with "maintenance":
WSGIScriptAliasMatch "^/(?!maintenance).*$"
/path/to/my/web2py/wsgihandler.py
It works like a charm. Now when I activate maintenance mode apache serves
the static html page in /var/www/html/maintenance. Otherwise, it redirects
all other requests to the wsgi handler for web2py.
On Monday, September 19, 2022 at 6:07:18 PM UTC-4 Ian W. Scott wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a static maintenance page under apache that doesn't
> depend on web2py. The problem is that the mod_wsgi scriptalias directive
> seems to override the rewrite instructions to serve the static maintenance
> page.
>
> My apache config includes this:
>
> ErrorDocument 503 /maintenance/maintenance.html
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteCond /var/www/html/maintenance/maintenance.enabled -f
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/maintenance/maintenance.html
> RewriteRule ^ - [R=503,L]
>
> This works fine as long as I disable the mod_wsgi scriptalias directive:
>
> WSGIScriptAlias / /path/to/my/web2py/wsgihandler.py
>
> Basically I need web2py to handle any urls from the base of my domain.
> Except I want to bypass that alias for paths beginning "/maintenance".
>
> Any suggestions for how to configure this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ian
>
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