actually, vB have this stupidly generated page with a “the board is closed” message we can edit… but if the database is dead, or the site need to be closed efficiently, this is completely useless…

what good thing would be to have a switch… we have a default error page generated in error.html, and it is over-written with the new default style when the templates “headinclude, header, footer” are edited… so we’re sure it fit the look of the site anyway.

this generated error.html is linked to a .htaccess file (error 405 etc) and if the admin set the site to closed, the htaccess file is edited to redirect everybody on error.html … nothing more.

this way, even if the db is dead, the error page will display properly.

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