Deployment: Create static maintenance page served by Apache until we have read only mode.

[kcondon]

Needed to help with deployment friendliness. Issue to track read only mode feature: #2587.

[mheppler]

A static maintenance pg has been created, based on input from a quick FRD that outlines the requirements.

Whether anything else is needed for this is up for discussion still. This pg could be stripped to be a more generic template, which we could include in the code source, along with instructions for customizing in the Installation Guide.

[kcondon]

Maybe change "going through unexpected maintenance" to "undergoing maintenance" so it sounds less like we're out of control.

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[pdurbin]

@kcondon mentioned that we're looking for a place in the git repo to put the maintenance page.

I'd suggest putting it at doc/sphinx-guides/source/_static/installation/files/var/www/html/maintenance/index.html

I say this because if you look at https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/tree/v4.3.1/doc/sphinx-guides/source/_static/installation/files/etc/init.d for example, that's where we put files that we want sysadmins to be able to easily download from the Installation Guide. http://guides.dataverse.org/en/4.3.1/installation/prerequisites.html#solr-init-script says, "You can attempt to adjust this Solr init script for your needs or write your own." I can imagine similar text (also with a link to a file) for downloading a sample maintenance page.

[mheppler]

The Administration pg of the Installation Guide has been suggested as where to link to this file.

[mheppler]

EDIT: Found a GitHub Help suggestion with a solution for permanent file links that is more reliable than RawGit, and less hacky than linking to the commit.

UPDATE: I was incorrect in suggesting that solution, the URL's are not to the raw file. I am still looking for the best solution. I found these discussions about linking to files on GitHub and GitHub as a CDN on StackOverflow. We can discuss our options as a group when we meet.

[mheppler]

Assigning to @scolapasta to look at in more detail and make a decision on the best technical decision for this project.

[pdurbin]

@mheppler I noticed that the Harvard logo was missing in the 2588-maintenance-pg branch like this...

... so I made a change at 0230b8c to fix this. Now it looks better:

I had a brain fart while trying to get the "2588-maintenance-pg" branch up to date with develop and ended up merging 2588-maintenance-pg prematurely into develop. I backed this out of develop however and I think we're ready to make a pull request from the 2588-maintenance-pg branch. Any objections? Is there still more you want to do? I'm co-assigning this issue to you.

[pdurbin]

@mheppler and I discussed this issue and agreed we should go ahead and make a pull request, which I did at #3385

This issue and the pull request are in Code Review at https://waffle.io/IQSS/dataverse if anyone would like to take a look but I think it's ready for QA. @mheppler mentioned that as customization is worked on for #2003 the header might change to say "Harvard Dataverse" rather than just "Dataverse" or something.

[kcondon]

Looks good, closing.