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How do I make site offline? - jumper - 2012-11-17 I want to make my site offline while I work on it. Would someone mind telling me how to do that? thanks. RE: How do I make site offline? - shawn_a - 2012-11-17 There is no built in way to do maintenance mode. You could do a deny all in htaccess. RE: How do I make site offline? - jumper - 2012-11-17 Thanks Shawn... appreciate it! RE: How do I make site offline? - hameau - 2012-11-17 I don't need it very often, so I have a fully-manual method for putting up a 'Maintenance' message, but still allowing me to access the site. It involves adding a few lines to the root .htaccess file (which can be simply commented when not required) and a maintenance page, also in the root directory. Add to root .htaccess, immediately below the existing RewriteBase line: Code: ### Maintenance Mode ### Add the file maint.php~ (with the trailing tilde) in the website root: PHP Code: <?php To enable maintenance mode, insert the current public IP address of your workstation and remove the single comment marks from three lines in .htaccess; rename maint.php~ to maint.php. Return the site to live condition by reversing this. Your current public IP address can be found from, for example, http://www.whatsmyip.org/. RE: How do I make site offline? - jumper - 2012-11-17 Thanks a lot Nick, That's a great way to put up a temp Maintenance mode. Appreciate your help, jumper RE: How do I make site offline? - shawn_a - 2012-11-18 or quick and dirty without pretty handling order allow,deny allow from 255.0.0.0 deny from all RE: How do I make site offline? - yojoe - 2012-11-19 If you need to cease down only main, index page for a short amount of time, just upload a prepared index.html into your root directory. Assuming that .htm/.html files have higher priority than .php, incoming users will see index.html page. |