you dont have to do anything.by default browsers check for index.html first. Just upload your under construction page and name it index.html. it wont redirect to idnex.php.

other than that, there has to be a setting in b2 under conf/advanced.php, that allows only admins to access the site.

Hmm...if I go to http://wccoa.org/ it sends me to http://wccoa.org/index.php/Home/ instead of http://wccoa.org/index.html. What am I missing?

Ethan5150 wrote:

Hmm...if I go to http://wccoa.org/ it sends me to http://wccoa.org/index.php/Home/ instead of http://wccoa.org/index.html. What am I missing?

that's odd.it might have sth to do with your server configuration or an .htaccesss file.

anyway, just go to conf/_basic.config.php and set

$maintenance_mode = 1;

That seems to work, although it would be nice if I could make it a bit "prettier" using an HTML page of my choosing...not the end of the world though. Thanks!

In b2evo 4 all you need is rename/create a file maintenance.html in /conf/ directory, and style it the way you like.

Ok, the other issue though, is that if it's in maintenance mode it won't let me load any of the page (backend or frontend) - it simply pulls up the maintenance page even if I go to a different page (ex: http://wccoa.org/index.php/Home/) Is there a way to make it so only going to the base url (http://wccoa.org) redirects to the maintenance page but I can still work on the site "behind" that?

a workaround;
add below lines in your skins ...header.inc.php

if( !is_logged_in() || ( $current_User->ID !=1) ) header('Location: http://www.myblog.com/index.html');

this will redirect everyone except logged in admin

.htaccess

# DEFAULT DOCUMENT TO DISPLAY:
# this will select the default blog template to be displayed
# if the URL is just .../blogs/
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
	DirectoryIndex index.html
</IfModule>

Upload index.html holding page
Call up yourdomain.tld/index.php to bypass the htaccess

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