To make your site appear offline, you can use a .htaccess code to redirect any visitor who is not at a selected IP address. You may use as many IP addresses or as few as you would like.
This is a straightforward way to redirect visitors, so they are unable to view your site. It is possible to redirect all visitors, excluding yourself, co-workers, and even your clients.
- First, make a coming soon page named “comingsoon.html,” and then upload it to public_html.
- Then, add this to your .htaccess file
- RewriteEngine On
- RewriteBase /
- RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !^71\.225\.113\.171
- RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/comingsoon\.html$
- RewriteRule .* /comingsoon.html [R=302,L]
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