The site maintenance with “./launcher rebuild app” takes some time to fully rebuild the site (installing new plugins etc from git). Is there any recommended way to show a static page saying “Under maintenance” while I rebuild the discourse? What I thought was to use nginx. That involves stopping t…

Hi @PrettyGirl There is, yes. Take a look here: [image] Add an offline page to display when Discourse is rebuilding or starting up Sysadmins warning This guide is intended for advanced users, who are already using nginx outside the docker container. By follow…

The way I think is better and easier is to use a two container setup so you can build a new container while the old one runs. There is much less down time that way. Others think that running an extra web server is easier.

That will work in a lot of cases, but is still going to experience downtime whenever the data container needs to be updated.

Major database upgrades happen less than once a year. Minor database upgrades don’t take very long and you can rebuild the data container, destroy and start the web container in a very few minutes. It seems that some people would rather have a pretty message saying that the site is down rather than …

Showing a "Under maintenance" page using nginx at the "launcher rebuild app"?

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Stephen (Stephen) October 8, 2023, 2:40am 2

Hi @PrettyGirl

There is, yes. Take a look here:

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Showing a "Under maintenance" page using nginx at the "launcher rebuild app"?

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