June 14, 2010 WordPress 3.0 is coming any minute now, which means many of you will be performing some major upgrades in the near future. Here’s a quick way to take your WordPress site down for maintenance while redirecting to your maintenance page. Add this to your .htaccess page:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/maintenance.html$
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^123\.123\.123\.123
RewriteRule $ /maintenance.html [R=302,L]
Change maintenance.html to wherever you want to redirect your users. Also, update line 2 with your own IP address. This 302 redirect will ensure that search engines do not index your maintenance page as your new homepage.
Source: CatsWhoCode
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Thanks Sarah.
Nice tip and in a really good time as I will be adding BuddyPress to a project I am working on. :-)
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Which one is better?
ErrorDocument 503 /503.php
#
RewriteRule !^(503\.php$|images/|css/) – [R=503]
#
Header Set Retry-After: 3600
or can I do it like this? I just copied yours and placed 503 instead.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/maintenance.html$
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^AAA\.BBB\.CCC\.DDD$
RewriteRule /maintenance.html [R=503,L]
They say 503 is better because of the ‘retry’ option. Anyway, whatever works is good. Thank you. :D
oops, my bad! that is supposed to be like this: i hope the html entities show. :)
<Files 503.php>
Header Set Retry-After: 3600
</Files>
Hey Sara!
If you go down this route you should be using a 503, that is a maintenance redirect.
And yes, this is the simplest and best way of doing big changes hands down :)
Take care, Z