Make the maintenance page a hardcoded response
Show the maintenance message on the requested page, instead of
redirecting to a specific url which then displays a page with the
maintenance notice.
from django.db.backends import BaseDatabaseClient
from django.conf import settings
import os
class DatabaseClient(BaseDatabaseClient):
executable_name = 'sqlite3'
def runshell(self):
args = ['', settings.DATABASE_NAME]
os.execvp(self.executable_name, args)