I would like to request a basic feature that would handle the exception that the DB is unavailable in a friendly way. For me it is because I have 10 minutes of downtime nightly while my DB backs up. But really it makes sense for any time the DB is not functional. Currently if the DB is unavail. All you get is an error screen stating that the DB is aunavail. It is quite technical and quite ugly. Is there anyway that the basic board look can be pushed out, OR at least a friendlier and better looking error screen? Maybe even let that be user defined? OR better yet, let that be auto created by the vbulletin platform. Like upon setup a static VB error page is created and stored as a .html file in the forums directory. then insert the code : if ( ! DB connected ) redirect to dbnotconnect.html ;
There should be some other place where the admin can see the error and email alerts should be sent out. However the current error page is really just not acceptable for example I would like to show the message "The board is down for maintenance" message wrapped by my standard look and feel. I know that the look and feel comes from the DB that is why generating a static html file may be the way to go.
Thoughts?
There should be some other place where the admin can see the error and email alerts should be sent out. However the current error page is really just not acceptable for example I would like to show the message "The board is down for maintenance" message wrapped by my standard look and feel. I know that the look and feel comes from the DB that is why generating a static html file may be the way to go.
Thoughts?
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