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 Self-Hosting warning This guide is intended for advanced users, who are already using nginx outside the docker container. By following this …

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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