This solution is simple and works fine for me.

http://perishablepress.com/press/2010/05/19/htaccess-redirect-maintenance-page-site-updates/

On Sep 5, 9:45 pm, Xoubaman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> It would be nice to save the secret url into the database and change it
> without editing bootstrap.php, though.
>
> Any suggestion?

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