Chris McDonough wrote:
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Is there a way to use URL Rewriting rules in Apache (with mod_rewrite) to test if a particular box was alive, and only if so, direct traffic there? Maybe have it look if a particular file exists (or some such)?
If you find out, please let me know, that sounds very useful!
Perhaps a bit trivial, but maybe this could be a poor man's solution to this problem: Apache gives the possibility to customize its error behaviour, http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#errordocument http://httpd.apache.org/docs/custom-error.html Maybe it's possible to just use that to redirect apache to an uri which delivers a nightly built static version of the site. Also, one can redirect to an cgi script which sends an email before redirecting to that static version. I just don't know for sure whether the "upstream host not responding" error of mod_proxy can be handled here. cheers, oliver