I have a site which I am taking down, but we still need access to the admin section - how would I do this?

 

So basically the whole site is down, with a holding page (index.html - static) but the only directory you could get to is the admin - I have never used magento - so I need some help with this asap

 

Cheers

There is an offline maintenance extension available, or you can modify the .htacccess and pipe everything to holding-page.html instead of index.php (if you do that you will need to make an exception for admin requests though)

Ok Jock - thanks - how would I do that via htaccess mate? I am not brilliant at this side of things.

 

So in my htaccess file - how do I redirect EVERYTHING, except the admin section back to the new holding page?

 

Cheers buddy - much appreciated... I can see a user award coming your way ;p

got to admit I dont really know because I dont use magento vry often, try

 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^.*$ /holding-page.html [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^/admin/$ /index.php/admin/ [NC,L]

 

then go to /index.php/admin/

Edited January 5, 201115 yr by Jock

Unfortunately that produced a server 500 error - any ideas? eeeek!

Hey mate - don't worry, I got there in the end

 

Thanks

kinda guessing here

 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f

RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^.*$ /holding-page.html [NC,L]

 

then index.php/admin again to get into admin

Ok cool - that works mate

 

See here: linky linky

 

BUT - if you hit /index.php it will show the old homepage - any final ideas?

 

Cheers Jock

I have never used magento but you could try doing a redirect from index.php to the holding page e.g.

 

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ index.html [NC,R]

 

You should *cross fingers* still be able to access the admin.

not sure if this would work but what about blocking it from every1 except you/your clients ip? It should still allow people to see the holding page.

 

<Files index.php>
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
Allow From 123.123.123.123
</Files>

 

There should be a way of still accessing the admin urls but not the rest of the site, I just dont know what the expression is, I'd fire it up on stackoverflow and see if you get any joy there.

 

You could also re-write the ZF routes within magento... might be a bit overkill though.

all you need to do to put magento into maintainance mode is to create a new file called

 

maintenance.flag

 

in the root.. and err that's it

 

If you dont want to freeze yourself out you can edit index.php

 

around line 57 add

 

$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

 

$allowed = array('xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx','xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx'); ( where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ip addresses. )

 

 

then change the line

 

if (file_exists($maintenanceFile)) {

to

if (file_exists($maintenanceFile) && !in_array($ip, $allowed)) {

 

you can see the site and anyone else will get maintenance.

 

hope this helps

Andy

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