Upgrading Serendipity Feature Request

carl_galloway · Post by **carl_galloway** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 9:49 am

My blog is currently running v1.1, and so are a few of my other sites. I'd like to upgrade them to 1.2 but I get a lot of traffic on a couple of my sites and the upgrade process will no doubt be seen by some visitors. Is there a way of temporarily shutting down s9y and giving the visitors a default please come back soon message while I go through the upgrade process, and can this be added to the list of things to do for serendipity?

fwe77 · Post by **fwe77** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 10:15 am

Hi Carl,

look at this thread - http://board.s9y.org/viewtopic.php?t=2562. The entry of Big-Tux.

Frank.

carl_galloway · Post by **carl_galloway** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 11:01 am

Ah so simple and yes, that is exactly what I want.

For the benefit of the English speakers, imagine a plugin that could rewrite the .htaccess so that all requests for index.php are temporarily redirected to a static html page explaining that the site is unavailable, but requests for serendipity_admin.php are allowed which would enable blog owners to upgrade software, change templates, plugins, rewrite entries etc and then simply get serendipity to rewrite the .htaccess file when you're ready to go live again.

Any idea when this plugin will be available?

Post by **garvinhicking** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 11:08 am

Hi!

Automatted rewrite of .htaccess is IMHO always a problem, because you never know what the users server support, and you might easily break his site. Also, users often add custom content to their htaccess which could conflicht with what a tool would put there.

I don't think this could be done in a good way and would cause more trouble that it solves.

Regards,
Garvin