| Using htaccess for temporary down time maintenance
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nmjudy
msg:4213475 | 10:07 pm on Oct 7, 2010 (gmt 0) |
I need to remove an old postnuke installation that keeps getting hacked into that resides in a folder called "articlebase". I plan on installing the newest version of Wordpress to display the articles in a different folder. Is there a way I can let Google know that the "articlebase" folder is under maintenance (while it appears broken)? I want to remove the Postnuke software asap, but have too many internal links pointing to the articles.
After the Wordpress installation is updated with all the articles, I plan and doing a 301 redirect from the old postnuke site page to the Wordpress version of the page.
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g1smd
msg:4213488 | 10:46 pm on Oct 7, 2010 (gmt 0) |
You could serve "503 Unavailable".
That's usually a safe bet.
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nmjudy
msg:4213499 | 11:24 pm on Oct 7, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Thanks for the quick response. :-)
If I wanted to serve a 503 unavailable in the "articlebase" folder, how would I write the .htaccess ? (I don't want to mess with my root .htaccess file) Or is there an easier way to do this?
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nmjudy
msg:4213514 | 12:34 am on Oct 8, 2010 (gmt 0) |
I think I found an answer by Googling "holding page and the 503 status code". There is a good tutorial there.
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