Re: 'Site under maintenance' option

I like this idea.

On Sep 13, 7:25 pm, Juan Basso <jrba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can use a non-cake solution that is use htaccess (or any rewrite
> rule from different http server) that check if file app/webroot/
> maintenance.html is present. If is there, show the file to any
> request. So you can delete/create/rename the maintenance file to
> enable/disable. Faster :)
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> Juan Basso
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> On Sep 13, 7:28 pm, ecsyle <ecs...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I have a boolean set in my AppController to enable/disable the site.
> > If the site is disabled, I run $this->cakeError('maintenance') to send
> > the user to a custom error page explaining that the site is down for
> > maintenance.
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> > I also use a .lock file in the webroot to automatically disable the
> > site when I am doing updates. My build script creates the .lock file
> > before doing anything else, and once the updates are complete and
> > verified, the .lock file is removed.
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> > On Sep 5, 12:45 pm, Xoubaman <xouba...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > I'm trying to implement a system to disable the site temporaly for
> > > maintenance purposes or whatever. If the site is disabled, only logged users
> > > can navigate through it, non-logged users are redirected to a "Site under
> > > maintenance" layout.
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> > > Currently (o "As of now"), my approach is to allow a "secret url" that will
> > > lead to the login form, check in AppController::beforefilter if the current
> > > url is the allowed one and, if it isn't, set the maintenance layout. Trying
> > > to figure out how to allow only one url to log in, I came to define it as a
> > > constant in bootstrap and add the route in config/routes pointing to
> > > UsersController::login.
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> > > It would be nice to save the secret url into the database and change it
> > > without editing bootstrap.php, though.
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> > > Any suggestion?

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