Question

I have a website running on a google app engine.
Like any website these days it’s a mix of static html pages, javascripts,css, pictures as well as servlets to generate data…

For a few days we want to switch off the site. (The reasons are not relevant)

By switching off I mean that anybody who goes to

http://www.mysite.com/whatever-here

should get a message like:

[Hi there, we are reworking the site. Come and visit us in march 2013.]

is there an easy config change I can do so to configure that any call to that domain goes to some simple html page.

In that way I can leave all my web pages in the project and just toggle with this configuration.

Thanks

Answer 1

If you are using Java you can add a Filter that redirects all your requests to the page you want. Or even map everything (/*) in your web.xml to the servlet/jsp you want.

From the official docs:

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>disabled</servlet-name>
    <jsp-file>/disabled_page.jsp</jsp-file>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>disabled</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>