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Hi everyone

Is it possible to preview the site i'm working on while the "Site is currently down for maintenance" message is activated?

This would be very practical so I can develop the site directly on my server instead of developing the whole package with MAMP and export it afterwards.

greetings from Switzerland

There are some ways...

1) Exclude some ip-addresses in the GlobalSettings->Site down. That will make you bypass it for specific ips
2) Create a simple site-down page, linked to a template like the minimal-template, remove the menu-call from that template. Make that page the default page, and hidden from menu. Then do with the other pages what you want, and navigate directly to one of them. That will give you full options on the other pages, while visitors get a single page without navigation.

Ronny

An even simpler way is to create a static 'Site Down' HTML page and upload that to your server.

Most webhosts i've used will read an index.html file before an index.php so your users will see your site down page when they visit your domain, however using the preview button in your admin area will still launch the index.php page so you see your site.

Very nice ideas. Thank you. I will try them out.