I think I'm missing something. I attempted to do this the "proper" magento 1.x way:
- Copied
rootDir/errors/default
torootDir/errors/janitor
- Changed
<skin>default</skin>
to<skin>janitor</skin>
- Updated code in
rootDir/errors/janitor/503.phtml
as needed.
This kind of works. The problem is the edits to 503.phtml
basically make it a new page. It sends headers, it has a full <html> .. </html>
structure etc.
Obviously what ends up happening is page.phtml
renders first, with the contents of 503.phtml
inside that page as the body.
I COULD completely change page.html but I would like to keep using the default for every other error (404, etc.)
The 503/maintenance page is a separate entity with its own markup, styles, logo and so forth.
Right now the solution is simply to bypass all this by changing the logic in rootDir/index.php
to load my custom maintenance page rather than go through the standard magento error processing/rendering of 503.phtml.
Best Answer
Magento goes to maintenance mode when you create a file named maintenance.flag to your Magento home directory. This is how Magento handles it:
If you want to custom and design it, follow this one.