Site Maintenance Message

You want to quickly take a site down for maintenance. All visitors see the temporary message while files are being uploaded, but you can see that the site works before making it live again.

1. create a maintenance.html file at the root of your site (best not to use images unless you are sure they won't be changed)
2. modify your htaccess file as follows:

       Options +FollowSymlinks
       RewriteEngine on
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/maintenance.html$
       RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !^888\.888\.888\.888
   
       RewriteRule $ /maintenance.html [R=302,L] 

3. change the remote host address to your external ip address

• http://www.techiecorner.com/97/redirect-to-maintenance-page-during-upgrade-using-htaccess/