Having a fallback/default page for Cherokee when a reverse proxy is unavailable

Question

I have a Cherokee instillation that I'm using to serve a few web applications. One blog/calendar/etc. and 2 compute intensive web-applications (1 stable version and 1 "developmental" version). All three are Django or Pylons webservices that are served with Cherrypy. I use the reverse-proxy handler in Cherokee to handle the mappings.

Occasionally I have to take the developmental version down to make feature improvements. Is there a way to setup Cherokee so that it will automatically serve (or redirect-to) another page indicating an under-construction status whenever the developmental reverse-proxy is un-findable?

I'd prefer an automated solution in Cherokee but if someone knows a simple point-and-click method I'll take that too.

Thanks,

Will

Answer 1

You could set a custom 504 error page.