Installation

Django Downtime supports Django 1.8 - 1.9 and Python 2 and 3.

To install django-downtime:

pip install django-downtime

add to installed apps:

INSTALLED_APPS += (
    'downtime',
)

Add downtime middleware to the top your list of installed middlewares:

'downtime.middleware.DowntimeMiddleware',

Settings

Exempted URLs:

DOWNTIME_EXEMPT_EXACT_URLS = (
    '/', # exempts homepage
    '/other_location/not_down/page',
)

Exempted Paths:

DOWNTIME_EXEMPT_PATHS = (
    '/admin',
    '/other_location_not_down',
)

Url Redirect:

DOWNTIME_URL_REDIRECT = "http://errors.mypage.com"

Templates

If no URL Redirect is specified a lame default template is rendered, this can be overridden by specifying a downtime/downtime.html template.