I've the same problem, I don't think DAL has this kind of ability but I leave the word to others in such cases. Are you interested in showing the 404 page for all tickets or only for those the involve the db connection?
Paolo On Thursday, December 19, 2013 7:35:24 AM UTC+1, Raj Chinna wrote: > > Hi, > > I have web2py application which talks with MYSQL and i have my db > connection strings in db.py module. Sometime the web2py server is running > without any issues, but mysql goes offline now and then. So, I am getting > the ticket generated saying that *"Failure to connect, tried 5 times: > Traceback (most recent call last): ".* > > All I wanted to do is to check if this error comes out (that's mysql is > not running) I need to redirect the user to something like 404/database > error page. Can someone tell me where and how can I detect this database > connectivity failure and show some meaningful error message. > > Thanks, > Raj Chinna > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

