How to give "site is temporarily offline" message?

Hello,

My project is in spring mvc 2.5, and I have hosted it on tomcat 6. For maintenance purpose sometimes I shutdown tomcat, mean while if any user hits the URL they will see tomcat's http 404 page. I want to add a page with the message "site is temporarily offline" only when tomcat is shutdown.

Any suggestions how can I achieve this? Thanks a lot in advance.

Technically you wouldn't be getting a 404 error from tomcat since you shut it down. You'd be getting a message from the browser saying it couldn't connect to the server.

Hi sbirnie,

Thanks for your reply. Yes you are absolutely correct. So, how to avoid that situation and display "Site is temporarily unavailable" message?

Hi Tejas,
You can setup custom error page in Apache for error code 503. But again this is at server level not Spring.


http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod...#errordocument

example

Code:

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ErrorDocument 503 /maintance.html

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Thanks a lot Rohan. But I have deployed my application on tomcat, can you please tell me where to find httpd.conf file where in i need to configure ErrorDocument?

No idea, it should just be a simple case of copying everything over from the beta site, and then just changing a couple of lines in the code to point at the right database, use the correct cookies etc