Can I put a service on Stingray into maintenance mode?

[riverbedjo]

I usually use a htaccess file on my app server to redirect everyone but my ip to a maintenance.html page .... I was foolishly trying to do this with my app server behind Stingray traffic manager but of course it didn't work .... is there a way to do the same thing with traffic manager?

[owen · Accepted solution]

Try the following request rule

$ip = request.getRemoteIP();
# Don't intercept requests from my IP address
if( $ip =="123.45.67.89" ) break;

http.sendResponse( "503 Too Busy", "text/plain",
  "Sorry. No one can serve you right now", "" );

There are lots of other things you could do rather than directly sending the response:

http.redirect( "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random" );

Also, take a look at Using Stingray Traffic Manager as a Webserver.

Finally, you could continue to use your .htaccess solution if you passed the source IP address through to Apache, using mod_remoteip as described in IP Transparency: Preserving the Client IP address in Stingray Traffic Manager