Gabriel de Kadt » server side http://www.lazydada.com Personal notes on Mac based web development and design. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:29:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Display proper maintenance page with .htaccess http://www.lazydada.com/2009-06-08/display-proper-maintenance-page-with-htaccess/ http://www.lazydada.com/2009-06-08/display-proper-maintenance-page-with-htaccess/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:28:34 +0000 admin http://www.lazydada.com/?p=359 Create a decent “sorry this site is down for maintenace” page with a “have a Nice day” message then when you do need to upgrade things use the following htaccess rewrite rule to forward all traffic to this page.

Adapted from Marco’s Webdev Notepad

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^83\.57\.178\.37$
RewriteRule !maintenance/index.html /maintenance/index.html [L,NC,R=302]

From Ask Apache (I like)

ErrorDocument 403 http://www.sub.domain.com/
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 83.57.178.37
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