can i redirect my page to other website or display any message if the server is down

[indians]

Dear All,

can i redirect my page to other website or display any message if the server is down.

in case the server is down. i want to display a message to the visitors to come back later or server is down. can i do it if so plz guide me in doing it.

Thank you in advance,
Indian

[Livewire]

If the server is down, it can't issue a redirect command. That's the problem.

[descalzo]

If the server is down, no.

If you have a MySQL driven site (WordPress, Joomla, SMF, etc), yes. They all have ways to set up error pages other than the vanilla 'Could not connect to database' pages. You can set one up to either display a more informative error message or use a redirect (via headers or via META tags) to an outside server.

[indians]

If the server is down, it can't issue a redirect command. That's the problem.

can i do it from my domain side by giving some values or so.

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If the server is down, no.

If you have a MySQL driven site (WordPress, Joomla, SMF, etc), yes. They all have ways to set up error pages other than the vanilla 'Could not connect to database' pages. You can set one up to either display a more informative error message or use a redirect (via headers or via META tags) to an outside server.

can u further explain with the solution. i am using wordpress, SMF and phpbb3. so what i can do when i face a problem of server down.

[cybrax]

If the visitor has a page bokmarked / saved or otherwise still in their browser cache then a javascript routine could detect that images for instance are missing from the page and perform the re-direct to an alternate server.

Of course comes the next problem, the database synchronisation. For a web site with relatively static content this is less of an issue but if you are running a forum as well then it's a nightmare.

Fun as it is innovating solutions to work around the limitations of free hosting sometimes the only cost effective solution is to go 'Pro' and pay for the hosting.

[xbil125757]

thnkzzz a lot for the info dere, was looking for dis..