On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Leo Donahue <donahu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. > Redeeming myself.... Use two # symbols. webapp.war would be an earlier version of webapp##1.war Read this: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/context.html#Parallel_deployment
