How to give "site is temporarily offline" message?

[tejaspatel]

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.

[sbirnie]

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.

[tejaspatel]

Hi sbirnie,

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

[rohan123]

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

ErrorDocument 503 /maintance.html

[tejaspatel]

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?

[corinnefalgoust]

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