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[14steve14]

I needed a quick and easy method of temporarily closing my live site to all visitors apart from myself.  I searched and found the following.

Create a new page called 'maintenance.html' and upload it to your sites root folder.  Do not include any images, but add whatever text you like and preferably add a time when the site will be back online.  This just helps keep your customers informed.

Add to the start of your root folders htacess file

# MAINTENANCE-PAGE REDIRECT
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^123\.456\.789\.000
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/maintenance.html$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* /maintenance.html [R=302,L]
</IfModule>

Change the part of the code that is in red to your ip address keeping the \.  and save the changes.

Now you should be able to access your site, whilst sending all other visitors to your maintenance page.

This worked for me so i thought i would share.

[geoffreywalton]

There are several more sophisticaled down for maintenance/ holiday/vacation add-ons which you can enable from the admin page but the above will work too!!

Cheers

G

[Robbogeordie]

You can have problems with Google indexing your maintenance page as a replacement for your correct page if you use a 302 redirect.

You are best to use a 503 Service Unavailable status code.

http://www.webmasterworld.com/apache/4326464.htm