[TYPO3] How to unpublish the whole front-end?

[Ignatius Reilly]

Hi Katja,

In fact I adopted another approach suggested by a clever chap in this 
thread:
- (our site is multi-domain)
- created another "maintenance" site with a single page "site under 
maintenance", internationalized, with templates similar as those of the 
main site
- now to unpublish I just have to cut'n paste the main site's domain 
record into the maintenance site.

That's a bit more work, but the advantage is that we have a nice 
maintenance page. With the "activate FE group" approach, one would 
abruptly force a message "you must log in" to the public audience - 
potentially confusing.


Katja Lampela thus spake on 2007-09-24 08:46:
> Ignatius Reilly kirjoitti:
>> Is there a built-in way to unpublish a whole site from the admin panel 
>> (to bring a site down, while keeping access to the BE), like there is 
>> with Joomla?
>>
>> Searched about, couldn't find it (using 4.1)
> 
> Hi Ingnatius,
> I'm not sure what you mean by unpublish, but there are many ways to hide 
> the whole FE site from the public and still keep the BE access. Two 
> simple ways come to my mind: disable the site's template(s) or make a fe 
> group and make the root page access restricted to this group and 
> activate the "include subpages" for restriction.
> - Katja