Ignore App urls from maintenancemode

example/ignore_app/admin.py

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+from django.contrib import admin
+
+# Register your models here.

example/ignore_app/apps.py

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+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+from django.apps import AppConfig
+
+
+class IgnoreAppConfig(AppConfig):
+    name = 'ignore_app'

example/ignore_app/models.py

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+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+from django.db import models
+
+# Create your models here.

example/ignore_app/templates/503.html

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+<h3>Temporary unavailable</h3>
+
+<p>You requested: {{ request_path }}</p>

example/ignore_app/tests.py

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+from django.test import TestCase
+
+# Create your tests here.

example/ignore_app/urls.py

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+from django.conf.urls import url
+
+from .views import home, page_x
+
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^ignore_app/?$', home),
+    url(r'^ignore_app/page_x/?$', page_x),
+]

example/ignore_app/views.py

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+from django.http import HttpResponse
+
+
+def home(request):
+    return HttpResponse('Excluded App from maintenance mode')
+
+
+def page_x(request):
+    return HttpResponse('Excluded App Page from maintenance mode')

example/settings.py

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 PROJECT_APPS = [
     'maintenancemode',
+    'ignore_app'
 ]
 
 INSTALLED_APPS = [
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 STATIC_URL = '/static/'
 
 MAINTENANCE_MODE = True  # or ``False`` and use ``maintenance`` command
+
 MAINTENANCE_IGNORE_URLS = (
-    re.compile(r'^/ignored.*'),
+    re.compile(r'^/ignored/?$'),
+)
+
+MAINTENANCE_IGNORE_APPS = (
+    'ignore_app.urls',
 )

example/urls.py

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 from django.conf.urls import url
+from django.conf.urls import include
 
 from .views import index
 
 urlpatterns = [
     url(r'^$', index),
     url(r'^ignored/$', index),
+    url(r'', include('ignore_app.urls')),
 ]

maintenancemode/conf.py

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 class MaintenanceSettings(AppConf):
     IGNORE_URLS = ()
+    IGNORE_APPS = []
     LOCKFILE_PATH = os.path.join(
         os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)), 'maintenance.lock')
     MODE = False

maintenancemode/middleware.py

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 IGNORE_URLS = tuple([re.compile(u) for u in settings.MAINTENANCE_IGNORE_URLS])
 
+IGNORE_APPS = []
+
+if settings.MAINTENANCE_IGNORE_APPS:
+    for each_app in settings.MAINTENANCE_IGNORE_APPS:
+        app_obj = urls.include(each_app)[0]
+        IGNORE_APPS.extend([p.regex for p in app_obj.urlpatterns])
+
 
 class MaintenanceModeMiddleware(object):
 
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             if url.match(request.path_info):
                 return None
 
+        # Check if app paths is explicitly excluded from maintenance mode
+        for url in IGNORE_APPS:
+            if url.match(request.path_info.replace('/', '', 1)):
+                return None
+
         # Otherwise show the user the 503 page
         resolver = urlresolvers.get_resolver(None)