I don’t quite understand all this. This is what the "site unavailable" configuration options is for! Just create a document with the content you want people to see and assign it as the "site unavailable" document, and set the option to Yes. Now all anybody who comes to your site will see is that page, while manager user see the whole site as normal. Develop away, and when you’re finished reset the configuration option.
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Quote from: sottwell at Apr 17, 2006, 04:22 AM
I don’t quite understand all this. This is what the "site unavailable" configuration options is for! Just create a document with the content you want people to see and assign it as the "site unavailable" document, and set the option to Yes.
That would mean that he would have to create the index page of the current site to modx first. If he has a complex site, it’s just extra work to create the site unavailable page to look like the old index page. It’s easier to keep the index.htm and index.php both, and just make sure that index.htm get’s loaded by default. But there is lots of ways to accomplish this, I usually rename the index.php to something else, use friendly urls and edit the .htaccess file to use the renamed index.php. That is just as easy.
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mabe it would be nice to have an option to open a non modxpage while building the site in modx that way it would be posible to redirect to the old site.
this would be posible by using a snippet that redirects you to the old site (index.html) and setting the template to blank.
Dimmy
so, make the "unavailable" document a weblink pointing to the old index.html file.
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