How to customise the maintenance page?

Henry Wright

@psychobunny actually I did look for an article on this in the docs before posting this topic but couldn't find anything so an article would be useful I'm sure of it! Will update the docs right after I've done it myself so I can outline the steps I took.

julian

@henrywright Yeah the error page itself is just html, and the line to serve it in nginx is quite small, so I didn't think it was worth mentioning

Henry Wright

@julian at first I didn't think of Nginx at all; instead, I was focusing on Settings > Maintenance Mode and thinking there was a setting in that section I was overlooking. But then the penny dropped ha

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@psychobunny I know, i know! If you click on the inscription 502 - it will jump.

Robert

Hmm I'll see if I can so something with apache in a similar way. This seems like something nodebb can expand on

julian

@Kowlin What do you mean? You can already customise the maintenance page by modifying the template.

If you get the page served by nginx, then nodebb is DOWN and there isn't anything NodeBB can do about that!

Robert

@julian this is why I need to not take breaks from software I follow. I'll just end up being confused what in talking about

Henry Wright

@Kowlin with Apache you can set the ErrorDocument directive in your .htaccess doc

Henry Wright

@psychobunny I think I got it?

drew

@henrywright said:

I think I got it?

NICE WORK!

@psychobunny I'd say he's earned us a gist!

julian

@henrywright Yep, you found it

Fastidious

@drew so, where do we get that sexy 502 page now?

psychobunny

lmao @henrywright congrats. It wasn't that awesome of an easter egg but glad you found the secret message haha!

The NodeBB Community's 502 page

The NodeBB Community's 502 page. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Gist (gist.github.com)

Excuse the lowsy coding, IIRC I had a non-wager bet with @julian about being able to build a cool 502 page in under 10 minutes

EDIT:

I have two major ones I'm fixing for Monday

I only took down the forum a few times today for seconds tops, so seriously, how many times did you spam f5 today? XD

psychobunny

BTW, this has been available the whole time at https://community.nodebb.org/502.html

Fastidious

@psychobunny said:

BTW, this has been available the whole time at https://community.nodebb.org/502.html

Henry Wright

@psychobunny said:

BTW, this has been available the whole time at https://community.nodebb.org/502.html

I'd love to say that's where my screenshot came from but spending the day spamming F5 is closer to the mark

Thanks for the Gist. Those animations...