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hello everybody

i just started using CMSMS and find it very useful as admin panel for different projects of mine.

mainly i am giving my users an admin access and export data as rss to be used in as web-services and data feeds

i want to close the front end so nobody discover the use of the CMSMS except my users

how can i achieve this:
Front End: Disabled
Back End: Enabled
RSS: Enabled

Just put a index.html in the root folder?

in fact i was looking for something like "Under construction" or "Site Lock" plugins. i did not think of the index.html is a good solution. not to mention that a user is still able to access index.php directly.

In Global Settings there is also "Site Down" option, you can enable that as well or grab FrontEndUsers module, set any FE page to Restricted and thats it.
If you go only with index.html make sure you disable indexing for Search engines

site down will stop the stop the feed
i am using Calguys Feed Maker

Maybe I'm missing the point but I would create one page, eg 'home', using the most minimal template with the content as "this site is under construction".