View site offline

ukjock · 25.09.2004, 14:20

Is there away to view the site while it is offline?

What I want to do is view the whole site as it will look once published, but to everyone else who visits it looks as if it is offline.

Is this possible with Mambo?

me@phil-taylor.com · 25.09.2004, 14:46

yes it is possible.

Login to admin and set the site offline - then because you are logged in as admin you will be ablee to view the site normally from the front end - no one else can see it

ukjock · 26.09.2004, 00:32

Thanks Phil.

I went to Site, then global configuration and clicked site offline "yes" then clicked save. I then went to site > Preview > in a new window. But it still comes up with this site is under construction. I also allowed all cookies for this site in to my IE privacy.

Am I doing something wrong?

rober · 26.09.2004, 00:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by ukjock

Thanks Phil.

I went to Site, then global configuration and clicked site offline "yes" then clicked save. I then went to site > Preview > in a new window. But it still comes up with this site is under construction.
Am I doing something wrong?

The same thing also happens for me and I also found something else a bit odd, in template manager, when I try to view the template "info" nothing happens. smal thing but...

aquebahamas · 26.09.2004, 20:07

I am also having the same problem.

Quote:

...because you are logged in as admin you will be ablee to view the site normally from the front end - no one else can see it

How is this done?

mgerrard · 27.09.2004, 03:03

I set up an index.html in the root with an offline message & add

Code:

DirectoryIndex index.html

to .htaccess. Then you navigate to the index.php to work on your site. This won't work if somebody has an internal page bookmarked but it's the method I use.