Can we Link/Direct the maitenence mode to a customized maitennce HTML page?

  • I’m rebuilding a website for a client and I created a nice countdown page all in HTML from theme forest and its been live on the .ORG url (where my wordpress site will eventually take its place)

    When I switched my clients domain and hosting, we got a .COM url for free, so I have been creating the WordPress site on the .COM url and I will switch it over to the .ORG after the countdown.

    (TL;DR)I have decided not to risk the launch window with complications from the url/domain switch, so I want to make the transition NOW, but I want to keep the HTML countdown page I created without disturbing anything if possible, since the .ORG and countdown page is the high traffic location.

    suddenly changing to the default maintenance mode will confuse people, and I don’t have time to re-recreate a nice construction page, so I’m hoping there is an easy way to link my current countdown page into the maintenance mode.

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  • I usually use a WP plugin for my maintenance pages while I am working on a web site. There is a way to do this quickly with the .htaccess file. You may want to do a little reading about .htaccess if you have never used it. You want to make sure you add this block to your .htaccess file

    ErrorDocument 403 /specific_page.html
    order deny,allow
    deny from all
    allow from 111.222.333.444

    1. set specific_page.html to the page you want everyone to land on
    2. change the ip address in allow from <your ip address>
    3. This will allow you to access everything from your ip address and deny ALL others. Once denied, they are redirected to the ErrorDocument
    4. You can add multiple Allow From Lines to allow multiple people to see your work.

    I hope this helps.

    Bob

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