under maintenance

Tuesday 12 August 2008 3:14:24 am

This is maybe not 100% an eZ Publish issue, but I'd like to know if some of you came up with an easy to use mechanism to put a site offline for some time with some 'under maintenance' kind of screen.

I know this can be done manually by hacking the .htaccess file or overriding the index.php, but I'm looking ofr a better solution where customers coming through a bookmark to any of the pages would also get the maintenance screen.
How did you deal with this issue?

Thanks for your input,
</Pascal>

Tuesday 12 August 2008 12:56:55 pm

Hi Pascal,

I use a rewrite rule in .htaccess file :

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule  (.*) /path/to/your/maintenance/file/index.htm [L]

I give some details on my blog : http://pwet.fr/blog/putting_a_site_under_maintenance

Cheers

Damien
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Monday 10 May 2010 8:55:42 am

Hi,

for put your site under manteinance you can create a index.html file with your custom message.

Then open .htaccess immediatly after the line

RewriteEngine On

Add this line

RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|png|css|js)$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*/plain_site.*$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*/plain_site_admin.*
$RewriteRule (.*) index.html [L]

Obviously plain_site and plain_site_admin are standard site access that you replace with your siteaccess.

Sorry for my english and i hope if this can help you.

Rawflow