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I'd like to modify the generic blank page with a custom template

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Create/edit the errors/local.xml file like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
    <skin>customtheme</skin>
</config>

Then create a copy of errors/default folder and call it customtheme.

From this point, you can edit the phtml files as well as add the css files to create your own custom theme.

EDIT: even though it has been approved as a valid answer, this answer is only relevant for Magento 1 and I did not see it was a Magento 2 question.

Thus, the right way of designing the maintenance page is by editing the pub/errors/default/503.phtml page.

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  • Is it the local.xml under <m2root>/pub/errors?
    – csmarvz
    Jan 13, 2016 at 10:09
  • If your Magento install is under /pub I guess so. Find out where your app folder is, the errors folder should be on the same level. Jan 13, 2016 at 10:10
  • Inside my Magento install are: app, bin, dev, lib, phpserver, pub, setup, update, var, vendor. Inside app are: code, design, etc, i18n. But no errors folder :/
    – csmarvz
    Jan 13, 2016 at 13:39
  • Interesting, and how does your 503 page looks like right now ? Does it look like the Magento default theme or totally white ? Jan 13, 2016 at 13:42
  • It looks totally white
    – csmarvz
    Jan 13, 2016 at 14:15
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Actually, you don't need to edit core files for this purpose. Just copy pub/errors/local.xml.sample to pub/errors/local.xml, then make a copy of pub/errors/default (let's say pub/errors/custom). Change the skin value of the pub/errors/local.xml to the newly created errors skin:

<config>
    <skin>custom</skin>
    ....

After this you are able to make changes in pub/errors/custom/503.phtml and other files.

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  • Yup, this one is the correct answer for M2. Dec 12, 2016 at 7:26
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    Great idea, but this is broken in the 2.1.* branch. There's a fix that should be released in 2.2 So if you are using 2.1 then... sorry, no custom skin for you - see github.com/magento/magento2/issues/4305 Apr 13, 2017 at 12:06
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    I can confirm @yaroslav-rogoza solution is working in 2.1.4 Enterprise.
    – diazwatson
    May 25, 2017 at 1:05

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