That is what i'm afraid of. Actually - even two servers aren't a
guarantee for a smooth switch between them because you have already
logged in users with sessions on the first server and that it not that
trivial to keep them alive while switching to the second one!

On 15 Sep., 09:33, AndrewG <[email protected]> wrote:
> Alex,
>
> I think that if you have a single web server running - then it is
> pretty much inevitable that there will be a (short) period of 'down
> time' while a web app is installed and initialises.
>
> I know that this is not much help - but the obvious point that springs
> to mind is that if your application is sufficiently important that it
> being 'offline' for a short while inconveniences users greatly - then
> there probably ought to be a 'fail over' server to pick up the load in
> any case - otherwise if your only current server falls off its perch -
> the users will be even more unhappy, and for rather longer. So I don't
> think that any technical tricks you might come up with (a secondary
> web server instance running on the same physical server, for example)
> would involve a lot of fiddling about, and aren't really a solution.
>
> Andrew
>
> On Sep 15, 8:19 am, "alex.d" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Not quite. The problem is - while updating your application
> > (undeploying it and deploying a new one) your website isn't working
> > for severall minutes. And i would like to avoid this somehow. But the
> > only thing that crosses my mind is having a second server and
> > switching between them and i, sadly, don't have a second server.
>
> > On 14 Sep., 16:39, Diego Lovison <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > example.. when user type in 
> > > urlhttp://localhost:8080/youraplication/xxxx.html
> > > xxxx.html dont exist in server.. will return "404 not fount"
> > > you would like change for "this page dont exist in the server..
> > > please ........."?
>
> > > On 14 set, 11:29, "alex.d" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > The problem is: while undeploying old/deploying new version of
> > > > application it's unavailable for severall minutes. Which is of course
> > > > pretty annoying for the users. Is there any way to avoid this? I mean
> > > > besides switching servers - i just have one :(
>
>
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