How to redirect visitors to a maintenance page

Sometimes when you upgrade your site or software that is used on the site you need to replace your front page with a maintenance page. Otherwise you risk exposing important data or risk a security breach. The redirect should be a 302 type redirect to avoid the indexing of the page by search engines.

To activate a maintenance page you need to edit or create the .htaccess file and place the following code in the file:




In this code you need to replace yourmaintenancepage with the name of your maintenance page and the IP address on line 3 with your IP address so you will have access to the site.

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