[TYPO3-dev] TYPO3-Site Maintanance

[Krystian Szymukowicz]

Olivier Dobberkau wrote:
> Steffen Kamper schrieb:
> 
>> When others are interested in i could post a patch for it in BT
> 
> I like the idea too.
> 
> Better would be something using mod_rewrite...
> 
> 
> Stolen from Ruby on Rails..
> 
> # Check for maintenance file and redirect all requests
> 
>   RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/system/maintenance.html -f
>   RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !maintenance.html
>   RewriteRule ^.*$ /system/maintenance.html [L]
> 
> Maybe the Installer can have such an Function..


+1

mod_rewrite seems to really the best solution.

I would add only IP developer mask:
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !^123\.123\.123\.123

or access only with some special cookie (if no IP possible)
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !(cookiename)


Advantages:
1) no localconf.php, index.php needed
2) no PHP needed
3) no database needed
4) access to site for developer - maintenance for others


The main possibility (for me at least) is that is allows to make fast 
TYPO3 upgrade. I usually make a copy of TYPO3 site which I upgrade to 
see if there is no problem - but this is time consuming. With such 
maintenance solution I could even make a mistake in localconf.php and 
the maintenance site will still show up.

As Olivier said Installer is a good place to implement that.

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Krystian