Added maintenance mode feature for the site using the module django-maintenancemode

VIPSWeb/local_settings_sample.py

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import os
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
 
 DEBUG = True
+MAINTENANCE_MODE = False
 TEMPLATE_DEBUG = DEBUG
 
 # Hosts/domain names that are valid for this site; required if DEBUG is False

VIPSWeb/settings.py

@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
     'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
     'common.middleware.whodid.WhodidMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware',
+    'maintenancemode.middleware.MaintenanceModeMiddleware',
     # Uncomment the next line for simple clickjacking protection:
     # 'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
 )

VIPSWeb/templates/503.html

+{% extends "base.html" %}
+{% load i18n %}
+{% block title %}{% trans "Temporarily down for maintenance" %}{% endblock %}
+{% block content %}
+<h1>{% trans "Temporarily down for maintenance" %}</h1>
+<p>{% trans "We are sorry, but the web site is currently underdoing maintenance. We should be back online shortly." %}</p>
+{% endblock %}

requirements.txt

@@ -23,3 +23,4 @@ Pillow
 requests==2.0.1
 django-tinymce
 python-dateutil==1.5
+django-maintenancemode