I have built a website (PHP) with more than 60 pages. I have only now realized (unfortunately) that I should have built in an "In Maintenance Mode" feature to allow an admin to temporarily disable ...

I know we could simply use an app_offline.htm file to do this. But I want to be able access the website if my IP is 1.2.3.4 (for example), so that I can do a final testing. if( IpAddress != "1.2....

Here is my app’s current way to handle the maintenance process: I have an environment variable for the app status: REACT_APP_SITE_MODE=“LIVE” | “MAINTENANCE” I'm using react-router for routing the...

I'm using AWS Load Balancer with 3 EC2 servers, and I'm trying to serve a Maintenance page when site is under maintenance. This page need to return 503 HTTP code, because it is a proper code for ...

I have an ASP.NET site that I'm going to have to take down to make some major structural updates to, and I was wondering how I should go about it from the client-side perspective. I have heard of a...

Heroku allows you to turn "maintenance mode" on for your applications, and also allows you to specify a custom url to be served during this period. I just tried this out and discovered that Heroku ...

While performing some upcoming maintenance, I'm going to have to redirect all site traffic to a maintenance page briefly. What's the proper status code to use for the redirect? 503 makes sense, bu...

Heroku can display custom maintenance page: heroku config:set MAINTENANCE_PAGE_URL=http://some_server/my_page.html This requires presence of some website where the page will be always online. C...

I'd like to put my app into maintenance mode but still have admins / moderators be able to log in and use the site. Two reasons: I'm making some changes within the app that are best applied using ...

I was trying to install this .htaccess to notify my users of site maintenance. It seems the first [L] isn't working and the second rewrite is doing everything. How do you guys do site maintenance ...

To show maintenance page during deploy I've always used next config in nginx: if (-f /home/shared/system/maintenance.html) { return 503; } error_page 503 @maintenance; location @maintenance { ...

I'm currently using MaintenanceModeMiddleware to put my site into maintenance mode, but it requires you make the change in the settings.py file on the remote server. I would like to use fabric to r...

I would like to disconnect all users from SQL Server except sa. The need for this is: I wrote a db maintenance utility for my ERP. Before running it I need to ask all users to logoff. So somehow ...

I am about to upgrade my whole site and I am looking for a way to do the maintenance process, but still allowing me to access. I am thinking of using htaccess. However, that only redirects users ac...

I've developed my first web application which, surprisingly, is getting very popular. Because the website is now live, I have a hard time doing some changes, in fear some people are still logged in...

I am aware of Capistrano, but it is a bit too heavyweight for me. Personally, I set up two Mercurial repositories, one on the production server and another on my local dev machine. Regularly, when ...