How to quickly put your website to maintenance mode
Sometime we need to put off a website for security reasons. For example when a customer get a malware or the site is hacked and we must organize well to cover all the points that are needed:
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- Clients must reach the website with maintenance page, put there all usefull information.
- SEO problem: the pages must not have a redirect 301 or 302!! error 503 is a better solution.
- You need to exclude yourself for diagnostic purpose.
Time Needed : 0 days 0 hours 3 minutes
These steps work with Apache:
Create an HTML page like that maintenance.html on you root’s site.
<html>
<body>
<h1>This site is temporarily under maintenance.</h1>
<h2>Will be back soon, please come back later.</h2>
</body>
</html>Enter this text on top of your .htaccess .
#MAINTENANCE-PAGE REDIRECT
ErrorDocument 503 /maintenance.html
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !=<YOURIPADDRESS>
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/maintenance.html$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [R=503,L]
</IfModule>Happy hunting!
Now you can find and fix the problem!
When you finished remove all lines you put on your .htaccess file
ErrorDocument 503 /maintenance.html means that if client get a 503 error will be redirect to maintenance page
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !=<YOURIPADDRESS> helps you to reach your site!
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [R=503,L] put a 503 error without change the URL.
