close site for maintenance

[orange08]

i get a tutorial, saying the following code can put our site offline, and only the developer can view the site

 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^111\.222\.333\.444$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/maintenance\.php$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /maintenance.php [L]

 

for the mentioned purpose, is that replace this line

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^111\.222\.333\.444$

with the developer ip address?

 

then, how to replace our ip in this line: ^111\.222\.333\.444$

still need to put ^ \. and $

 

can give example in putting an ip address in this line?

 

thx!

[jon23d]

I believe this is backwards, don't you want to send only if the IP is NOT whatever you have?

[orange08]

I believe this is backwards, don't you want to send only if the IP is NOT whatever you have?

 

sorry, i can't get what you meant here. mind to explain your question again?

[orange08]

or how can i make my site only viewable by myself but others cannot access(a maintenance page instead display for them)?

[cags]

Try reading this... http://phpacademy.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=955

[purpleshadez]

Try reading this... http://phpacademy.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=955

 

Nice tutorial and something I never considered. I use access levels on most of my projects but this is much simpler

[cags]

It's probably not perfect as it's the first thing I ever attempted with a .htaccess file. But it works

[salathe]

Remember to send out a 503 Service Unavailable header with an appropriate Retry-After time.

[cags]

Hello again salathe...

 

Sending those headers never occurred to me, would this be correct (for an hour)?

 

header('HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable'); 
header('Retry-After: 3600');