easy apache2 maintenance wall

This let you configure an easy maintenance wall on your vhost to quickly serv a "maintenance info".

How it works

In apache2 we can use RewriteEngine ¹ to rewrite requested URLs on the fly. We redirect all requested URLs to a subpath "/maintenance" if an apache administrator enables the "maintenance-function". The maintenance website redirects every 10 seconds (default) to the url origin, for example: example.com/maintenance automatically redirects to example.com After disabling the "maintenance-function" the user will automatically redirected to the url origin.

Configuration

• Copy the files in src/ to /var/www/maintenance or /var/www/maintenance/perVhostMaintenance.
• Copy the files in config/ to /etc/apache2/.

maintenance.conf

If your files located at /var/www/maintenance/perVhostGdpr or something you have to redefine the location in maintenance.conf:

Alias /maintenance /var/www/maintenance -> Alias /maintenance /var/www/maintenance/perVhostGdpr

your vhost

Here is a snippet for an example vhost

<--- snip --->

  ########### MAINTENANCE WALL #################
  Include maintenance.conf
  ########### MAINTENANCE WALL #################

  Alias /website /var/www/html/htdocs/website
  <Location /website>
    Require all granted
    Options +MultiViews
  </Location>

<--- snip --->

</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>

index.php

You can find the php code for the url origin redirect here.

And don't forget to change the GDPR-text in the index.html file :)

Footnotes

1. https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html ↩