Thank you very much - that all makes perfect sense.
Margie
On Aug 6, 9:09 am, akaariai <akaar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6 elo, 18:36, Margie Roginski <margierogin...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Could anyone give me some pointers as to how you deal with taking your
> > site down for maintenance? Is there some standard thing that people
> > do to redirect all page requests to some sort of "Sorry, the site is
> > down" page? Do you do this directly via apache or do you do it via
> > django?
>
> Make a simple model for notifications and use that on your front page
> to notify upcoming maintenance breaks. I also use this style to inform
> updates done etc. The model could be something like this:
>
> class Notification(models.Model):
> notification = models.TextField()
> show_from = models.DateTimeField()
> show_until = models.DateTimeField()
>
> def __unicode__(self):
> return self.notification
>
> Put notifictions =
> Notification.objects.filter(show_from__lte=datetime.now(),
> show_until__gte=datetime.now()) into your template and show the
> notification list there. Use apache to show the actual maintenance
> break message when the site is down.
>
> > I additionally have a situation where when our mail server goes down,
> > I would like to allow people to do GETS, but not POSTS. If you have
> > any ideas on this I would be interested.
>
> One approach is to use middleware, and in the middleware check:
> if request.method == 'POST' and email_is_down():
> return error page.
>
> You could also use a default context processor which puts
> posts_allowed variable in the context and then in base.html have {% if
> not posts_allowed %} Technical problems... saving not allowed {% endif
> %}. You could also wrap your submit buttons in {% if posts_allowed %}.
> Maybe disable also the edit links...
>
> - Anssi
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Django users" group.
To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
