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#1 2006-05-03 16:13:16
- lee
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Holding page & develop online?
What’s the best way to have a holding page and develop a site online at the same time?
Cheers, Lee
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Re: Holding page & develop online?
Most web hosts are configured to serve up index.html before index.php.
So you can create an index.html holding page and setup Textpattern like you normally would. Visitors coming to your site see your index.html, unless of course they ask for index.php.
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#3 2006-05-03 19:11:54
- lee
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Re: Holding page & develop online?
But the htaccess file that comes with Txp serves up index.php over index.html if I’m not mistaken.
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#4 2006-05-03 19:22:14
- els
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Re: Holding page & develop online?
You could change that temporarily. But visitors who come from search engines for example directly to a page that’s not your home page won’t be directed to index.html.
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#5 2006-05-03 20:02:28
- Mary
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Re: Holding page & develop online?
But the htaccess file that comes with Txp serves up index.php over index.html if I’m not mistaken.
It’s commented out, so it uses whatever default your host provides.
I have mine set to DirectoryIndex index.html index.php all the time with no ill effects.
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#6 2006-05-03 20:19:17
- anoke
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Re: Holding page & develop online?
I once used something like the following in htaccess
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^127\.0\.0\.1$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ underconstruction.html [L]
..but that was longlong time ago and just simple static html pages.
The idea of that rule is to redirect all but your IP addresses (so you have to know your public ip) to the underconstruction.html. (iirc one should be able do similar redirection based on authentication too, but – again – i can’t know/remember.)
Maybe someone more literate person than me can say how badly that rewrite example fails, rewriting is the part of htaccess which really is in an alien language to me..
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