Maintenance Mode Page

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Hi all, Is there a way to make a phpBB board redirect to a page (e.g a created maintenance page) when the board is disabled or in maintenance mode?

[david63]

I don't think that you can do it within phpBB but you can with .htaccess

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I don't think that you can do it within phpBB but you can with .htaccess

but by doing this I will have to edit the .htaccess file all the time I want to put the board in maintenance mode.

[david63]

but by doing this I will have to edit the .htaccess file all the time I want to put the board in maintenance mode.

How often are you putting your board in maintenance? I doubt I do it more than once a year.

[</Solidjeuh>]

I don't think that you can do it within phpBB but you can with .htaccess

With .htaccess is a bad idea. I used that a few times, and when the maintenance was done I removed the code from .htaccess. But users were still being redirected to the maintenance page. .htaccess is cached in the browser cache.

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With .htaccess is a bad idea. I used that a few times, and when the maintenance was done I removed the code from .htaccess. But users were still being redirected to the maintenance page. .htaccess is cached in the browser cache.

Good, that is why I didn't consider doing that, any other means to achieve this?

[thecoalman]

But users were still being redirected to the maintenance page. .htaccess is cached in the browser cache.

You used the wrong type of redirect. You need to use status code 307 or even none at all. Even when you are trying to do 301 it's best practice to not include the 301 status until you know it works the way as expected.

[Lumpy Burgertushie]

what is maintenance mode?

if you are working on the board and you need it to not be used you would normally shut the board down from the admin panel.

when you do that, there is a place for a message to show users when they try to access the board.

robert

[stevemaury]

Yes, as Lumpy said, ACP, Board settings, Disable board, add message.

[3Di]

But users were still being redirected to the maintenance page. .htaccess is cached in the browser cache.

You used the wrong type of redirect. You need to use status code 307 or even none at all. Even when you are trying to do 301 it's best practice to not include the 301 status until you know it works the way as expected.

Correct. I am used to HTTP/1.1 503 header for sites' maintenance, done in PHP.
This way the site will be not indexed while doing that.

https://gist.github.com/3D-I/8fb88dc810 ... 675a4b926f

[</Solidjeuh>]

But users were still being redirected to the maintenance page. .htaccess is cached in the browser cache.

You used the wrong type of redirect. You need to use status code 307 or even none at all. Even when you are trying to do 301 it's best practice to not include the 301 status until you know it works the way as expected.

Correct. I am used to HTTP/1.1 503 header for sites' maintenance, done in PHP.
This way the site will be not indexed while doing that.

https://gist.github.com/3D-I/8fb88dc810 ... 675a4b926f

Yes, but you need to make the redirect via htaccess ? And that is getting cached in the browser.

[3Di]

Yes, but you need to make the redirect via htaccess ? And that is getting cached in the browser.

No. That's an HTTP header done in PHP.
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php

You don't have a redirect (which could be added there in PHP though)..
since that's the responsive page they will see till you are finished over there.

[thecoalman]

Yes, but you need to make the redirect via htaccess ? And that is getting cached in the browser.

When you are using .htaccess you might have something like this:

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Redirect 301 /oldfile.htm http://example.net/newfile.htm

The 301 tells the browser, search engines or whatever that it has been permanently moved and they will cache the response. A 307 is temporarily moved and it will not be cached.