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  1. Moodle
  2. MDL-55916

Maintenance mode should serve a http 503 instead of a 200

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    • MOODLE_29_STABLE, MOODLE_30_STABLE, MOODLE_31_STABLE, MOODLE_32_STABLE
    • MOODLE_32_STABLE
    • MDL-55916-maintmode-503
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      Note - To check for response code:
      1. Open your browser's developer tools, click on the Network tab.
      2. Reload the page.
      3. Select the resource that is being loaded (e.g. if you loaded http://[YOUR_MOODLE]/my/, select the entry for my/.
      4. Click on the Headers tab and inspect the Status Code, Status and Retry-After response headers.
      Testing procedure
      1. run php admin/cli/maintenance.php --enable, load any page and confirm it serves a 503
      2. php admin/cli/maintenance.php --disable, confirm 200 again
      3. php admin/cli/maintenance.php --enableold, load a deep link and confirm it serves a 503
      4. php admin/cli/maintenance.php --disable, confirm 200 again
      5. Put a site into maint mode from the gui, load a deep link in incognito mode and confirm it serves a 503
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      Note - To check for response code: Open your browser's developer tools, click on the Network tab. Reload the page. Select the resource that is being loaded (e.g. if you loaded http://[YOUR_MOODLE]/my/ , select the entry for my/ . Click on the Headers tab and inspect the Status Code , Status and Retry-After response headers. Testing procedure run php admin/cli/maintenance.php --enable, load any page and confirm it serves a 503 php admin/cli/maintenance.php --disable, confirm 200 again php admin/cli/maintenance.php --enableold, load a deep link and confirm it serves a 503 php admin/cli/maintenance.php --disable, confirm 200 again Put a site into maint mode from the gui, load a deep link in incognito mode and confirm it serves a 503

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      Plenty of good articles for why this is better eg:

      http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2786595/what-is-the-correct-http-status-code-to-send-when-a-site-is-down-for-maintenance

      This is especially important for big sites with lots of publicly available and indexed pages so that google never crawls these and gets the outage page and indexes it.

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          New Feature - A new Moodle feature which has yet to be developed. MDL-47271 Add system status report including tasks with cli status script

          • Minor - Minor loss of function where workaround is possible
          • Closed

          Improvement - An enhancement to an existing Moodle feature. MDL-56041 Cleanup custom 404 page and more easily support custom 50x error pages

          • Minor - Minor loss of function where workaround is possible
          • Closed
          has been marked as being related by

          Task - A task that needs to be completed. Tasks usually refer to work that must be done outside the product. MDL-64473 Allow an administrator to set an arbitrary http return code for maintenance mode

          • Minor - Minor loss of function where workaround is possible
          • Closed

          Improvement - An enhancement to an existing Moodle feature. MDL-71012 HTTP 503 Service Not Available is returned by exceptions and should be 500 instead

          • Minor - Minor loss of function where workaround is possible
          • Closed
          Testing discovered

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents Moodle from functioning correctly. MDL-56050 Course context not set on report_log produces error

          • Minor - Minor loss of function where workaround is possible
          • Closed

          Improvement - An enhancement to an existing Moodle feature. MDL-56036 Webservices errors should throw proper http code

          • Minor - Minor loss of function where workaround is possible
          • Closed

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              brendanheywood Brendan Heywood
              brendanheywood Brendan Heywood
              Jun Pataleta Jun Pataleta
              Dan Poltawski Dan Poltawski
              Simey Lameze Simey Lameze
              David Woloszyn, Huong Nguyen, Jake Dallimore, Meirza, Michael Hawkins, Raquel Ortega, Safat Shahin, Stevani Andolo
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                5/Dec/16