{"id":324,"date":"2006-08-31T21:33:08","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T15:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/2006\/08\/31\/return-503-status-with-apache-webserver\/"},"modified":"2006-09-01T12:22:03","modified_gmt":"2006-09-01T06:22:03","slug":"return-503-status-with-apache-webserver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/2006\/08\/31\/return-503-status-with-apache-webserver\/","title":{"rendered":"Return 503 Status with Apache Web Server"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over a post<\/a> in Google Webmaster Central Blogs<\/a> Vanessa Fox stated that when your site goes down for maintenance tou should configure your server to return a status of 503 (network unavailable) rather than 200 (successful). This lets Googlebot know to try the pages again later.<\/p>\n

Searching for how i can make my Apache webserver return the 503 – Service Unavailable status code for a particular site on a shared hosting environment i found the following solution over http:\/\/wiki.splitbrain.org\/503.sh<\/a><\/p>\n

To return 503 (Service Unavailable) status on Apache Web Server:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Step 1:
\nCreate the following shellscript named 503.sh:
\n<\/p>\n

#!\/bin\/sh<\/span>\r\n \r\ncat <<EOF\r\nStatus<\/span>: <\/span>503<\/span>\r\nContent-Type: text\/html; charset=<\/span>iso-8859<\/span>-1<\/span>\r\n \r\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 3.2\/\/EN"<\/span>>\r\n<html>\r\n<head>\r\n<title><\/span>503<\/span> - Service temporary unavailable<\/title>\r\n<\/head>\r\n<body>\r\n<h1><\/span>503<\/span> - Service temporary unavailable<\/h1>\r\n<p>Sorry, this website is currently down for<\/span> maintainance please\r\nretry in<\/span> a few minutes<\/p>\r\n<\/body>\r\n<\/html>\r\nEOF\r\n <\/pre>\n
<\/code><\/p>\n
Step 2:
\nThen add this to your virtual host config:
\nScriptAlias \/  \/path\/to\/your\/503.sh\/<\/code>
\nPlease note the trailing slash! It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s needed! <\/strong><\/p>\n
Step 3:
\nRestart Apache<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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