taking a django site down for maintenance? - django

Question

I am running django with nginx/gunicorn. I am not deeply familiar with how nginx and gunicorn work, but suppose that I want to take my django site down for maintenance.
I assume I would be wanting to redirect to some simple maintenance page by going into the nginx/gunicorn settings and redirecting something but I could be wrong.
What is the correct (easiest) way to do this?
EDIT adding nginx config proxy statements:
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_pass http://app_server;
EDIT 2: adding nginx sites-enabled file
upstream app_server {
server 127.0.0.1:9000 fail_timeout=0;
}
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
index index.html index.htm;
client_max_body_size 4G;
server_name _;
keepalive_timeout 5;
# Your Django project's media files - amend as required
location /media {
alias /home/django/mysite/media;
}
# your Django project's static files - amend as required
location /static {
alias /home/django/mysite/static_dump;
}
location / {
#proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
#proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
#proxy_redirect off;
#proxy_pass http://app_server;
if (-f /usr/share/nginx/html/index.html) {
return 503;
}
}
error_page 503 #maintenance;
location #maintenance {
rewrite ^(.*)$ /503.html break;
}
}

Answer 1

One of the ways to do is to add the maintenance page somewhere in the server, and then in your nginx file ( In the sites-enabled folder) redirect requests to the site to that maintenance page.
Your nginx page should contain:
server_name myhost.example.com;
root /path/to/html/file/directory;
index index.html;
Only the above 3 lines are enough