Turn board offline

[Saiano]

Hi, is it possibie to turn tue hoard offline and put a message?

[itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma)]

Hi!

There are two choices depending upon what you want to achieve.
If you just want to prevent users from participating, You could put your discourse in a read-only mode by visiting admin > backups and clicking the Enable read-only option.

Alternatively, if you want to take your discourse down, you could follow this guide:

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

This guide is intended for advanced users, who are already using nginx outside the docker container. By following this guide you make your setup more complicated and will loose some speed benefits like HTTP2 if you’re not running Ubuntu 16.04 or later. Proceed with caution! When Discourse is rebuilding or starting up, your users will usually either see an error message from their browser… [image] …or a not-so-nice 502 error message from Nginx: [image] If you’re a perfectionist l…

Once you’ve added the offline page, you can simply pass the following command: ./launcher stop app which will stop the discourse container and perpetually display the offline page unless you restart the container.