[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 3:41 PM said:
> Hi there I was wondering how people usually turn the app off during > system maintainance. During the hours of 6-7 the database goes down > for backing up, the users therefore keeping trying to get into the > system, i get an error that the database is down when i know it > should be down near that time. Without causing too many if statements > what is the best way to do this ? i don't know if this is possible (it probably is) but maybe you could have apache serve a "server down" page for all requests to the website? alternatively, using php it'd be something like the following: store_open.php: <?php define("STORE_IS_OPEN", false); if(!STORE_IS_OPEN) { header("Location: server_down.php"); exit; } ?> index.php: <?php require "store_open.php"; // rest of page ... ?> if the store is open the user will see what they are expecting. if the store is closed they will be redirected to the server_down.php page. hth, chris. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php