{"id":3591,"date":"2016-03-16T12:12:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T12:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/?p=3591"},"modified":"2021-02-06T06:07:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T06:07:16","slug":"redirect-visitors-maintenance-page-using-htaccess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/redirect-visitors-maintenance-page-using-htaccess\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Redirect Visitors to Maintenance Page Using .htaccess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sometimes, you may want to put your site into maintenance mode so that you can do required up-dates like modifying themes, including custom features, repairing corrupted files.<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In this article you will find how to redirect all traffic and all visitors of your site to a maintenance page\u00a0during site updates.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Create a Simple Maintenance Page<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You first need to create a simple maintenance page with HTML into your root directory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Create a new file named maintenance.html<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Now open the newly created file and place the below code in it.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"cpanel-files\"><\/div>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true\">&lt;!doctype html&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;html lang=\"en\"&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;head&gt;\r\n\r\n  &lt;meta charset=\"utf-8\"&gt;\r\n\r\n  &lt;title&gt;Under Maintenance - Check Back Later&lt;\/title&gt;\r\n\r\n  &lt;meta name=\"description\" content=\"Under Maintenance - Check Back Later\"&gt;\r\n\r\n  &lt;meta name=\"author\" content=\"Vamsi\"&gt;\r\n\r\n  &lt;link href='\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css?family=Open+Sans' rel='stylesheet' type='text\/css'&gt;\r\n\r\n\r\n  &lt;style&gt;\r\n\r\n     html {\r\n\r\n      background: #f1f1f1;\r\n\r\n     }\r\n\r\n\r\n     body {\r\n\r\n      background: #fff;\r\n\r\n      max-width: 70%;\r\n\r\n      font-family: \"Open Sans\", sans-serif;\r\n\r\n      font-size: 14px;\r\n\r\n      padding: 1.5em 2em;\r\n\r\n      margin: 5em auto;\r\n\r\n      -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.13);\r\n\r\n      box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.13);\r\n\r\n     }\r\n\r\n  &lt;\/style&gt;\r\n\r\n  &lt;!--[if lt IE 9]&gt;\r\n\r\n  &lt;script src=\"http:\/\/html5shiv.googlecode.com\/svn\/trunk\/html5.js\"&gt;&lt;\/script&gt;\r\n\r\n  &lt;![endif]--&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;\/head&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;body&gt;\r\n\r\n  &lt;h1&gt;Under Maintenance - Check Back Later&lt;\/h1&gt;\r\n\r\n  &lt;p&gt;We are performing some updates and maintenance tasks.&lt;\/p&gt;\r\n\r\n  &lt;p&gt;Please check back later.&lt;\/&gt;\r\n\r\n\r\n&lt;\/body&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;\/html&gt;<\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Once done save and close the file.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After uploading the file, you would be able to access the HTML file using the URL <strong><em>http:\/\/yourdomain.com\/maintenance.html<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Add .htaccess Rule<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Now, open the .htaccess file in the root directory, copy the below code and paste it in the file. Save it and upload the file again.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"cpanel-files\"><\/div>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true\"># Redirect Visitors to Maintenance Page\r\n\r\n&lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c&gt;\r\n\r\nRewriteEngine on\r\n\r\nRewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^192\\.168\\.100\\.100\r\n\r\nRewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\/maintenance.html$ [NC]\r\n\r\nRewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\\.(jpe?g?|png|gif) [NC]\r\n\r\nRewriteRule .* \/maintenance.html [R=302,L]\r\n\r\n&lt;\/IfModule&gt;<\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Make sure to change the IP address in\u00a0<em>line 4<\/em>\u00a0to match your\u00a0<strong>current IP address<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Now all your site visitors will be redirected to the maintenance page. 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