Add an offline page to display when Discourse is rebuilding or starting up

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

@fefrei

That topic has received significant updating lately (that increased the overlap even more). Maybe it makes sense to merge the offline-page part from here to there as a note (since it’s easy to add if you already run a separate Nginx instance), then mark this one as deprecated (linking to the alternatives)?

How was I supposed to know?

@riking

@pfaffman edited this heavily 2022.02.24. Blame me if it’s broken.

Oh.

But seriously, I like your solution better than mine!

And that topic says in big letters that it’s an advanced topic.

@fefrei

Your suggested HAProxy topic would still make sense in addition, as the default way to go for people not wanting to install a front Nginx for other reasons.

But maybe isn’t that necessary either, as most people understand nginx better anyway. I’ve started thinking about it now, though, so the hard part will be to get me to stop.