How to display maintenance page when AEM services are down?

[GK-AEM]

Hi All,

i have requirement that wants to show a maintenance page when aem services are down.I have observed one even if AEM is completely down or AEM is up and running and for some reason we are not getting welcome screen ,receiving 503 error.how to show a friendly page at this situation.I think this needs to be implemented at dispatcher,is anyone has any idea or done the similar implementation please help me.

Thanks,

Kishore

[smacdonald2008]

IF AEM is down - then the service will not be render pages. You want to know how to render a page when the server is down?

[GK-AEM]

Yes.I want to show a friendly message when AEM is down.

[VeenaVikraman · Accepted solution]

You can host a stand alone HTML page in your dispatcher and when AEM is down , you can redirect the request to the same.

[smacdonald2008]

Great reply Veena!

[VeenaVikraman]

Thanks to my architect . He implemented this for our project .

[GK-AEM]

Can we have some high level steps to implement this .I have never done this.