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How to set up a "Down for system maintenance" message.
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Created On: 2 May 2002 11:55 am Last Edited: 2 May 2002 11:57 am |
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I'd like to be able to put up a message for my users while I perform system maintance. How can I do this. |
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If you run as a CGI, your Web Server will be the one to do this.
If you run in Direct Web Service (DWS) mode in version 4.1+ then the easieast approach is:
In the DWS ip:port table, add a second port on the same IP.
For example:
10.0.0.7:80 10.0.0.7:8080
(be sure this second port is available to you through any firewall you may have)
In your mapping table ("Web request mapping (redirects)"), per the examples included there, set it up so any requests to the normal web port are redirected to an HTML page.
Example
http://10.0.0.7:80/* local:test.html
where test.html is an HTML file located in your root HTML directory (by default this is the 'HTML' subdirectory of 'webx').
Then to do your work on the server, you access your site through the 8080 port
http://10.0.0.7:8080
When you are done, remove the new mappings and if you wish, close the alternate port access.
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