[Server-side] Improve the messaging while the server is restarting

Terrastories / terrastories

Terrastories is a geostorytelling application for mapping, managing and sharing place-based stories.

https://terrastories.app

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[Server-side] Improve the messaging while the server is restarting #69

Closed Bootjack closed 4 years ago

Bootjack commented 6 years ago

Any time the rails and nginx server restarts, the application is unresponsive for up to a minute or so. During this time, there's a completely unhelpful generic 502 error from nginx. Let's improve that by adding a customized error page that looks more like the login page or something at least branded with the Terrastories logo.

Bonus points if we can also include client-side polling against an /is_it_up endpoint and automatically redirect to the app once the server is running.

rudokemper commented 5 years ago

Worked on by @robbkidd in these two PRs:

https://github.com/Terrastories/terrastories/pull/208 https://github.com/Terrastories/terrastories/pull/210

mirandawang commented 4 years ago

closing for now; moving details to issue google doc