[TYPO3-dev] plans for 4.2 end of life

[Dan Osipov]

Is this described in documentation somewhere? It seems like TYPO3 has a 
ton of features that are undocumented, and therefore most of us are 
unaware of their existence.

Dan Osipov
Calkins Media
http://danosipov.com/blog/

Jeff Segars wrote:
> Dmitry Dulepov wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Steffen Kamper wrote:
>>> it is related
>>>
>>> If true, pageUnavailable_handling is used for every frontend page. If
>>> the client matches TYPO3_CONF_VARS[SYS][devIPmask], the page is shown as
>>> normal. This is useful during temporary site maintenance.
>>> $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['FE']['pageUnavailable_force'] = 1;
>>
>> Will it work if the database is down?
> 
> Yep, it works when the db is down :)
> 
> If you configure pageUnavailable_handling but don't manually force it 
> on, you'll get the maintenance page if and when the database goes down 
> and then the site will come back automatically when the database is back 
> up.  If you force it, it of course happens immediately.
> 
> http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=7150
> 
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