Comments on: Put Your Website in Maintenance Mode With .htaccess

By: Afterlife

Afterlife — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:09:50 +0000

Thank you, this is a great help in setting up a new site of mine. If I’m forwarding to the front page of a different domain than the .htaccess is hosted on, do I just change RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/berightback\.html$ to index.php?

By: Yaeger Design

Yaeger Design — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 03:52:35 +0000

Perfect! I love the fact that we can exclude our local IP. Just what I needed for this new project…

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:58:16 +0000

Yes, that probably is the optimal path to take in applicable cases. (The "Maintenance Mode" plugin is a great way to handle this in WordPress.) There's always someone who would prefer the .htaccess though.

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:56:19 +0000

Hehe. Fine with me as long as "Totally" stays the most-voted option.

By: Ozh

Ozh — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:41:15 +0000

(ok I admit I just wanted to test this "add poll within comment" stuff

By: Ozh

Ozh — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:40:43 +0000

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By: Joseph

Joseph — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:50:27 +0000

The simplest way would be to centralize some of the logic regarding site generation. This way you could turn maintenance mode on and redirect any non admins to a different page. This would not be hard to do, as I imagine you have some code that keeps popping up all over the place, so just extend the login functionality to check for a global variable (if you don't have any common global variables across your page you could just set it in .htaccess via setenv).