On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Leo Donahue <donahu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:28 AM, John Smith <tomcat.ran...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Is there a straightforward way to toggle or add something in Tomcat, in >> the >> event a webapp is intentionally taken 'offline for maintenance"? The user >> would receive the same single notification page saying as much, for any >> and >> all requests. >> >> Tomcat 7.0.42 >> > > What would respond to the user's request if the web app they asked for is > down? All you are going to get is a not found error which will be handled > by your ROOT web application. > I wonder if parallel deployment is an option for you? Maybe someone else will have a better idea. webapp#1.war could be your notice web app, while webapp#2.war could be your normal site. Deleting webapp#2.war would make requests fall back to your web app that notifies the user the site is down. Redeploying an updated webapp#2 would then override the the other one.
