Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksBack to top This page is read only. You can view the source, but not change it. Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong. ====== 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. - 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) - modify your htaccess file as follows:<code> Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/maintenance.html$ RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !^888\.888\.888\.888 RewriteRule $ /maintenance.html [R=302,L] </code> - change the remote host address to your external ip address ===== External Links ===== * http://www.techiecorner.com/97/redirect-to-maintenance-page-during-upgrade-using-htaccess/ docs/apache_web_server/site_maintenance_message.txt Last modified: 2008/08/03 00:25by 127.0.0.1