[Myke311]

I need to turn my site "off" for maintenance. Where if someone trys to load any page, they are redirected to a page that says the site is down for maintenance, will be back up shorty. A lot of message boards have this feature, a few websites use this feature ebay, paypal, myspace, etc...

I was wondering if anyone knows of a script that allows this or knows how i could do it? I need some way for an admin to be able to access the site while noone else can.

thanks!

[Infinite_Hackers]

Well, you can inclue a main file in all your files that you want to be disabled...maby common.php, in that you can use an if statement...

if($sitedisable == 1) {
die('site is down...bla bla bla');
}

and for admin, well depends if you have the phpBB system it's simple...

if(!$userdata['session_logged_in'] && $userdata['user_level'] != ADMIN && $config['jorconfig_disable'] == 1 && !defined("IN_LOGIN"))

i used that for my project, it uses phpbb ;D, you are able to disable the whole site but all admins can view it... so if any modules are being changed right off the server they can work on it.

[Sargant]

If you are running Apache with mod_rewrite, there is a way to do it with an .htaccess file in your root www directory. I did have a copy but it seems to have gone missing...

[AvanteGuard]

Originally Posted by Infinite_Hackers

Well, you can inclue a main file in all your files that you want to be disabled...maby common.php, in that you can use an if statement...

if($sitedisable == 1) {
die('site is down...bla bla bla');
}

and for admin, well depends if you have the phpBB system it's simple...

if(!$userdata['session_logged_in'] && $userdata['user_level'] != ADMIN && $config['jorconfig_disable'] == 1 && !defined("IN_LOGIN"))

i used that for my project, it uses phpbb ;D, you are able to disable the whole site but all admins can view it... so if any modules are being changed right off the server they can work on it.

eh I wouldn't do that

try

if(($sitedisable) and (!$admin)) {
header("Location: blah.html");
}

[Infinite_Hackers]

What wouldn't you do?

[01brclar]

Originally Posted by Myke311

I need to turn my site "off" for maintenance. Where if someone trys to load any page, they are redirected to a page that says the site is down for maintenance, will be back up shorty. A lot of message boards have this feature, a few websites use this feature ebay, paypal, myspace, etc...

I was wondering if anyone knows of a script that allows this or knows how i could do it? I need some way for an admin to be able to access the site while noone else can.

thanks!

I can help with this - I run 'Zap Programming' -Based in the UK - we specialise in custom based PHP scripts for companies around the world.

As it happens, we already have a script, created for another client that does this. If you are interested - please mail rclarke196@hotmail.com - For details - It is very reasonably priced as it not custom developed - probably around £5 / $10 (or via purchase on Amazon - multi currency!!) Let me konw anyway. Intereted? mail us

Just out of interst - Do you have MySQL? - There are 2 verisons - 1 runs w/ mysql and the other doesnt.

[DA Master]

I submitted this code to Snippet Library some time ago, you might find it useful...

http://www.snippetlibrary.com/viewhtml.php/6/25/516