[Documentation] How to put Vanilla 2 to offline mode?

est · May 2012

Hi folks,

I wonder how can I switch vanilla forum to offline. I can't find any docs about this operation, please help.

x00 · May 2012

I don't really get what you asking. But here is a top tip

Create your sorry.php

<?php 
header('HTTP/1.1 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable');
header('Status: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable');
header('Retry-After: '.(3600*5));//5 hours
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <meta name="robots" content="noindex">
    <title>Sorry for inconvenience</title>
</head>
<body class="ReadMe">
<p>We are very sorry for the inconvenience,service has been temporarily suspended for maintenance. </p>

<p>This is to make site.com better. If you wish to contact the admin send an email to admin@site.com</p>
</body>
</html>

in your .htaccess

 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !cheat
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !cheat=1
 RewriteRule .* sorry.php [L]

 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} cheat
 RewriteRule .* - [R,L,co=cheat:1:.%{http_host}:7200:/]

To work on it while it is down add ?cheat=1 to the end of the url once. This will create a a cheat cookie.

503 is the correct status code for search engines. When you finished simply comment out those lines in the .htaccess. Bob's your uncle.

x00 · May 2012

the flaw with that argument is if the software isn't functioning it can't be used to handle maintenance necessarily.

That is why an external solution is better.

If they granted every suggestion like this vanilla would be totally bloated. It wouldn't be vanilla it would be tuti fruti

whu606 · May 2012

@est

There is this plugin:

http://vanillaforums.org/addon/maintenance-plugin

I don't use it myself, but it seems that it might do what you are looking for, or at least point the way forwards.

est · May 2012

@whu606, thanks for having time to help!

Vanilla comes with maintenance mode template out of the box. From these considerations I think there must be some core feature for this. Do you know something about it?

est · May 2012

@x00

Thanks for the suggestion. I thougt about .htaccess rewrite rule and this is really plain and simple way.

A'm asking about core page that is shown at /dashboard/home/updatemode (in my 2.0.18.4 these pages are listed at /dashboard/routes). As long as this page is provided I suggest that there might be checkbox or button like "Put site to maintanence mode" or something like that.

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