# The site is offline when installing the plugin

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-site-is-offline-when-installing-the-plugin/297627>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [March 2, 2024, 7:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-site-is-offline-when-installing-the-plugin/297627 "2024-03-02T19:27:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Don](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/don/32/228726_2.png) [@Don](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Don)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 4:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-site-is-offline-when-installing-the-plugin/297627/8 "2024-03-03T04:49:43Z")

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Hello 👋 I am not sure and maybe I am wrong (I didn’t try it yet) but this is now a core thing? There is a new template a few month in `discourse/templates` called `offline-page.template.yml` and inside it it trigger the [GitHub - discourse/discourse-offline-page: offline page for discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-offline-page). Which is the static html site during Discourse loading. There is also a PR about it in `discourse_docker` [FEATURE: add offline page template by featheredtoast · Pull Request #752 · discourse/discourse\_docker · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker/pull/752)

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