Implement a Down for Maintenance screen

[girish]

@d19dotca Right, https://docs.cloudron.io/branding/#custom-pages . I wasn't clear that I was referring to not having a UI to set the page without having to SSH.

I guess maybe @marcusquinn wants more like a "Turn on maintenance mode" button in the old cloudron while he migrates to the new location or equivalent ? Of course a hack is to put a surfer page in that location while the migration happens

[marcusquinn]

@girish yup, exactly. Tick-box sys-admin makes me happy . I think a logo, a support email and a link field (that we'd use to point to a separate status updates URL) would be awesome. It just reassures people we know we're down and working on it, otherwise it just looks like we went bust

[robi]

Is this more of a default setting for every cloudron, or a feature checkbox with a url box you fill in with the site/page to redirect to when things are down?

[marcusquinn]

@robi I think common platform settings and per-app boolean.

[robi]

@marcusquinn For Cloudrons that host multiple domains and companies, those would be better differentiated per App/group.

[marcusquinn]

@robi If you wish, I was thinking contact details of the maintainer, not the brand themselves.

[Lanhild]

What about a "Turn on maitenance mode" like @girish suggested, but you'd be able to specify which page from the /home/yellowtent/boxdata/custom_pages you want displayed. This would allow a lot more flexibility and even let you have app-specific maintenance pages that you made beforehand.

[Lanhild]

@girish Any thoughts about this?

It's especially useful when you'd like to point users to a status page for which the URL differs with the app.

[james]

@lanhild
A question back.
Should this maintenance mode only be the dashboard or dashboard and all apps?

[Lanhild]

@james I'd say both. Either way, the best way to explain this need's the following:

Having the ability to set, from a list, which page to display when an app is down/off/in maintenance.