I'd like to shut a site down for essential maintenance and an upgrade.
Usually I do it through the night, when things are quiet.
What I want to be able to do is, when a user comes along (to any page) they get sent to www.mysite.co.uk/down and that will have a nice message on it. I'm assuming .htaccess would do that.
Problem is when I come to test the page, I too get sent to the 'down' page.
Is there anyway, to just let me see the whole site and users not?
Hope that makes sense
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If your site is coded in PHP, and you have an include on every page, such as a database connection script, you could tag something like this on the end of that included file:
PHP Code:
<?
if(!isset($_REQUEST['test'])) {
// Redirect to 'down page'
} else {
// Continue to view page
}
?>
To view a page for testing purposes, just tag '?test=1' on the end of your URL.
How that would exactly? Where would you specify the urls?
It is mainly for php, although I do have pure html sites which it would be handy for.
Say you were working on stuff.php, should your visitors have this bookmarked, when they'd view it with the URL mysite.com/stuff.php they'd get forwarded to your 'Site under maintenance' message, should you wish to view any changes you have made to that page, youd just visit mysite.com/stuff.php?test=1 and you could see the page as normal.
Appologies if I am not making much sense, trying to get out of the office and I keep getting distracted haha!
You could foward all visitors to www.domain.com to your www.domain.com/downpage.htm by use of the .htaccess file, while allowing access to the site via http://domain.com. it's not pefrect I agree, but it is a potential solution.
Anotherway could be to foward all visitors with an IP which doesn't match yours via Swiss method.
Indeed, if you take a .htaccess route, which means only changing one file as opposed to all your pages, you could set up a rule which does something simlair to Swiss approach.
ie. if the url features the string 'test' goto site, else goto downpage.
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