Excerpts from maillists0's message of 2013-11-15 12:52:31 -0800: > In some load balancers (haproxy, for example) you can create a backend that > only gets hit if all the other backends are down. A common enough setup is > to have a local apache serve a polite "oops" page on an alternate port on > the loopback. Is there some clever way to do this with Varnish? I've read > to docs and googled but can't find anything like this. If this is possible, > a doc to the right link would be awesome.
If all you want to do is serve a static page, you can do that in vcl_error. We read in an external HTML file (that's also used for other things) using std.fileread[0]. Here's the entire thing[1]; perhaps it will be useful. - P [0]: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.varnish.misc/8099 [1]: http://dpaste.com/hold/1465288/ _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] https://www.varnish-cache.org/lists/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
