[Zope] shutting down website

Tino Wildenhain tino@wildenhain.de
Mon, 03 Apr 2000 20:45:04 +0200


Hi Graham,

you could probably encapsulate your database-calls with 
<dtml-try>
...
<dtml-except>
<dtml-return maintenance_page>
</dtml-try>

HTH
Tino Wildenhain

Graham Chiu wrote:
> 
> Hi Tino,
> 
> >Best way is to mirror your database before doing any changes on the
> >tables.
> >Then you can switch your zope with a session to the copy of the
> >database.
> >join session, change all database-connections (or only the one you are
> >using)
> >and commit the session. Nobody will notice anything during this.
> >
> >HTH
> >Tino Wildenhain
> 
> I am thinking of upgrading the server software which would mean shutting
> Interbase down for a couple of hours.  Just wish Zope
> had a way to redirect within the standard error message.
> 
> Eg. if 404 error - redirect to maintenance page.
> 
> But I don't think that works.
> 
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