Guest Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Hi I must be a dope, how do I stop my website from being accessed until it is finished/ We got an order today and I have no idea how the person found the site, it is not even done, isnt there a way for the site to say "under construction" until Im done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarafina Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 HiI must be a dope, how do I stop my website from being accessed until it is finished/ We got an order today and I have no idea how the person found the site, it is not even done, isnt there a way for the site to say "under construction" until Im done? Create an index page that says "Under Construction". Contributions installed: Purchase without Account / STS/ All Products/ Header Tags Controller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jefs.42 Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 search the contributions for "Down Maint" and you should find a couple. Another option is to use a .htaccess file in the catalog directory also (assume that's what you already have for the admin directory). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Yes but I think that alters all of the things I am working on throughout the site, i e contributions etc. Also, people are getting in through other pages somehow, they are getting in through contact page; hmm i also need to view the pages because im working on it, i wish there was a way for the public not to see any pages at all jefs thats what i need thanks!! thanks to both of you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WEB11 Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 What I did was go under my cpanel and registered a temporary redirect to a file called index.htm and there I wrote "Coming Soon!". Of course if someone type www.mydomain.com/index.php they can still access my store but that was good enough for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mediajuggle Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Yes but I think that alters all of the things I am working on throughout the site, i e contributions etc. Also, people are getting in through other pages somehow, they are getting in through contact page; hmm i also need to view the pages because im working on it, i wish there was a way for the public not to see any pages at all jefs thats what i need thanks!! thanks to both of you! if you 1. put up a coming soon page in your main directory 2. use hts. acess on your catalog directory then only you will be able to view the pages that you're working on and all they will see is the "coming soon" page My Contribution Music Download Store Template http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,4275 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiedlerh Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Temporarily change your robots.txt file to disallow the directory. This should keep the search engines out until you're done. Some spider daily, so it's easy for unintended pages to show up in searches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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