Varnish error page when all backends are gone?

Mattias Geniar mattias at nucleus.be
Sun Mar 24 22:18:52 CET 2013


>Is there a way to return a custom "error" page when all backends are
>down? Or should I configure a local (on the same server as varnish)
>instance od web server with a static page and use it in case of
>problems? Hot to achieve that in VCL?

Hi Rafal,


Check out the use cases for the vcl_error() routine, that can output a
synthetic{} response that contains flat HTML for a "maintenance" or status
page. When all backends fail, the vcl_error() routine will be used.

Regards,
Mattias




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