Hi, I just want to add one more question - Daniel's idea looks very good. but what if we also want to verify the change by logging into the site (after application level change get complete) and then open it up for all users.. is there any way to achieve this? On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Daniel Ruggeri <DRuggeri@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 5/27/2012 6:42 AM, Miguel Gonzalez wrote: >> The version of Plesk we have doesn't support this so maybe there is any easy way to do this. I've thought about setting up a different instance of the web server or configure a different web server but maybe I'm missing an even simplier way to do this. In fact we only want to send a simple html response to the user. > > I'm a fan of using: > <VirtualHost *:80> > <IfDefine MAINTENANCE> > RewriteRule .* /path/to/maintenance.html [L] > </IfDefine> > > #Existing directives > </VirtualHost> > > > ... then, you only need to restart the server with -DMAINTENANCE to > enable and restart without the define to disable maintenance mode. > > -- > Daniel Ruggeri > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx