Explore methods of disabling site during build about drubs

[komlenic]

Third option: build site in something like env.node['site_root']/tmp and then move/rename/copy to actual site root dir... this doesn't feel awesome, and has the potential to create additional problems with pathing etc?

[komlenic]

The most graceful solution so far appears to be to set AccessFileName in apache like so:

AccessFileName .htaccess.drubs .htaccess

... which will of course parse a file named .htaccess.drubs if present, before parsing a normal .htaccess file.

So, if drubs can place a file named .htaccess.drubs into the site root location, containing redirect/rewrite directives (503 Header is best), then the site can be made unavailable during a build. At the end of the build, simply removing this file re-enables the site.

This also has the added benefit of not failing if a node is not configured with the AccessFileName directive as shown above -- the site will simply continue to be available during portions of the build.