Best way to take my WP install “offline”?

  • Hello,
    I’d like to take my blog offline for a while but I don’t actually want to uninstall or destroy my current blog. I simply don’t want it readable or accessible by the general public while I work on some content.

    Ideally I’ll put a stylish “under construction” page which I already know how to do via htaccess (using an index.html page).

    But I also want to break any existing links so people can’t type in “www.myblog.com/?p=000”.

    And of course at some point I want to put my blog back “online” without much hassle.

    Thanks.

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  • Your best bet is to password protect your blog directory, then no one can get in at all.

    Thread Starter greatstature

    (@greatstature)

    Is this something done on my server? Or a WP feature?

    it done in your .htaccess file.
    https://www.elated.com/tutorials/management/apache/password_protect/ will show you how to do it

    Thread Starter greatstature

    (@greatstature)

    Thanks. I’m going to look into that method.

    However, in the meantime I’d like to have a “splash page” that shows up but with no valid links, etc. This way it’d be a bit more “elegant” of a solution rather than having a password popup box.

    Thanks again…anyone else got ideas?

    It’s not going to be easy to do, as you want (I think) to be able to get in and develop your site, but don’t want anyone else to view it…. you could use your .htaccess to only permit your ip address, and direct everyone else to a splash page, but that’s rather down to you having a fixed ip… a google search on .htaccess should reveal what you can do!

    Thread Starter greatstature

    (@greatstature)

    Thanks again.

    I should specify that I merely want to work offline, then cut+paste text after I bring my site back up. I’m really not planning on doing much development.

    In other words it’s ok if the site is disabled to even me –just so long as I can bring it back online easily.

    I figured maybe I could just move some folders or disable some files to take down my WP install while using .htaccess to make a splash screen…?

    Why don’t you install XAMPP and have a local install of WP for development? That’s what most of us do.

    Thread Starter greatstature

    (@greatstature)

    Well I just made an .htaccess file pointing to a splash page. Seems to have basically done what I wanted.

    Thanks for the replies.

    there is a simple way.backup index.php on the root first, then Creat a index.php which you want to show.overwrite!!

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