On Wednesday, September 21, 2022 at 2:26:47 PM UTC-7 scot...@gmail.com
wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
Thanks for sharing this.
/dps
>
> 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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