FYI: Changing Hosting Services, site might be down

[Anonymous]

The whole site (boards and main page) will probably go in the next few days. They will be down for 24-72 hours as we transfer the domain to a new hosting service.

[Anonymous]

I found this when I needed to shut down my site to a single file for maintenance. You may not need anything so drastic, but here it is

Add this to .htaccess:

Code:

# This section is to close down the site in emergencies.
# Uncomment the next two lines.
#RewriteEngine On
#RewriteBase /
# Uncomment the next code line only for testing.
# It says only do the rewrite if the request is from YOUR IP address.
# Thus, you can close the site only to YOURSELF to make sure it works,
# then comment out the line again to close the site to everyone.
# Set it to your actual IP address at the time of the test.
#RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^111.222.333.444$

# Uncomment the remaining two code lines to close the site. They say:
# if the request is NOT for /maintenance.php, send /maintenance.php instead.
# You MUST allow at least one file to be served without rewriting it,
# (maintenance.php in this example), to prevent endless looping.
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/maintenance.php$
# To allow another file, copy the line above to here and change the filename.

# This line says: no matter what file was requested, serve maintenance.php.
# This is a rewrite (not a redirect), so we use the local file path, no http://
#RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /maintenance.php [L]

[Anonymous]

Transfer is done. DNS transfer underway. Site will go down any time. Will take a day or two to come back for most people.

[Anonymous]

The move is complete. Let me know if anyone finds and new bugs or issues.

Thanks.

[Author]

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