site down ...

[php101]

Hi there,

I need to take a PHP/mySQL web site down for fixing errors and

make it temporarily unavailable to visitors. Can you post how to

accomplish this. Thanks very much.

[p2grace]

There's a number of ways to do this but a stable way would be creating a folder with an index file that shows the site is down and update the dns to go to that folder.  Then when you're done updating the files move the dns back to the live folder.

[DeanWhitehouse]

you would put an IF at the beggining of each page and

IF($closed)

{

echo "site closed";

}

 

else

{

rest of code

}

 

that won't work as it is, but should point you in the right direction

[p2grace]

Yeup that would work just so long as you don't need to view the files while editing them.  Otherwise you'd see the same notification while updating the files.

[DeanWhitehouse]

yer, well it can be made more complex, and you can have it so it checks user level(or rights or whatever) and if you where admin, you can see the page properly.

[p2grace]

Yeup, there's a number of ways you could do it.  I was just letting him know.

[peranha]

<?php
if ($maintenance == 'YES') {
	if ($IPnumber == '192.168.150.156') {
		echo "<b class=red>* Site is in Maintenance Mode, and is not accessible outside this PC. *</b>";
		}
		else {
		       echo "<b class=red>This site is under maintenance, and will be unavailable for now. <BR>";
		       echo "Please check back shortly. </b><BR><BR>";
		       require ("footer.php");
		       die;
	        }
}
?>

 

That is what I use, and have it in a vital page that I include on all pages.  Set the IP number as you ip address