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« on: May 16, 2008, 09:02:49 AM »

I am wondering what is the best approach to put up an alternate home page indicating the website is closed.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

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« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2008, 09:13:12 AM »

I've always placed a custom made index.html page stating under construction in the root directory,, use .htaccess to direct to that page
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« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2008, 09:17:41 AM »

Thanks, that's what I was thinking, but I'm confused whether to use index.php or index.html
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« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2008, 10:06:21 AM »

Can't you just set it to offline and edit the offline page?
Thats what I do.
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« Reply #4 on: May 16, 2008, 02:32:43 PM »

Oh, you're so right...thanks!
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« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2008, 04:08:18 AM »

You can edit the Offline graphic and text as you desire also. Wink
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« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2008, 10:31:18 AM »

that is really cool but being the newbie i am ...

where is the file to edit for changing the off line to under construction

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Re: How Do I Hide the Website or Place an 'Under Construction' Page Up
« Reply #7 on: September 03, 2008, 08:55:45 PM »

Hello,

It's me again with another simple question. What is the best way to redirect your site to different url while the joomla site is undergoing maintenance? Should I use the index page or is their coed to put into the template html?

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Jack A. Parsons
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