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We have a client that would like to see a branded, non-EE error message if there is a problem with the EE database connection. Their database is hosted on a different server and has, on one or two occasions, lost the connection – causing EE to render a plain error message.

We'd either like to redirect to a static HTML page which contains a nice, branded apology for the site being down, or to edit the source code of the default message. I tried the Custom Messages add-on but it seems that this requires EE and the DB to be functioning correctly in order to work.

Any thoughts on how best to approach this scenario?

Gaz

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  • Would love to see the final answer written out clearly and selected.
    – Stephen Callender
    Commented Aug 15, 2013 at 13:39

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This might help:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5148033/how-do-i-check-if-php-is-connected-to-a-database-already

I suspect you will have to insert something like this in the site root index.php for it to work, you could then include a static template from somewhere else on the server when a connection can't be made and serve a 404 header?

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  • Thanks Nathan. Yeah, I guess that would work: if (mysql_connect(...)) { require_once BASEPATH.'core/CodeIgniter'.EXT; } else { redirect... }
    – GazCrane
    Commented Jul 16, 2013 at 13:14
  • I would avoid doing a redirect personally as a user might click 'Refresh' after seeing the message and in this scenario they wouldn't get routed back to the page they requested. :)
    – Nathan Pitman
    Commented Jul 16, 2013 at 13:16
  • Good point. Thoughts on serving a 503? if (mysql_connect(...)) { header('HTTP/1.1 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable'); header('Status: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable'); header('Retry-After: 3600'); include 'static_template.php'; } else { require_once BASEPATH.'core/CodeIgniter'.EXT; }
    – GazCrane
    Commented Jul 16, 2013 at 13:48
  • Oops, wrong way around...but you get the idea ;-)
    – GazCrane
    Commented Jul 16, 2013 at 13:50
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    Hi Gary - would be great if you could mark this question an answered by my suggestion or add your own answer with a code snippet. ;)
    – Nathan Pitman
    Commented Aug 6, 2013 at 21:29

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