Can A Store Be Made Temporarily Unavailable Or On Hold?

[Guest]

I worked with someone to set up an OS Commerce site for a client of mine. That person did 95% of the setup, while I supervised content and design.

 

My client is re-tooling his e-commerce intentions and wants to sell other products. He made a request to shut the site down. What I did, instead was to disengage the home page with an .html page announcing coming changes, but left the site intact. People, however can still find pages in the site though search engines.

 

Is there any way to temporarily "shut it down" or "go on vacation" or "closed for repairs?

 

I am a newbie at OSCommerce and have but a smattering of php knowledge. I looked over the admin (and other) options and found no such thing.

 

Suggestions, anyone?

[Guest]

you'd probably need to use your .htaccess file.

Something like a temporary re-direct to another page.

This should work:

Redirect 307 / http://www.mydomain.com/temporarypage.html

the first '/' sets what pages should be re-directed. If left as /, then all pages on the server will be re-directed. You may want to change it to '/catalog', like this:

Redirect 307 /catalog http://www.mydomain.com/temporarypage.html

The 'http://www.mydomain.com/temporarypage.html' is the full uri to the page they should be re-directed to.

 

Note that the old pages should always be a path (no http://www.), whereas the page for them to go to should always be a full uri

I hope that helps

[knifeman]

I worked with someone to set up an OS Commerce site for a client of mine. That person did 95% of the setup, while I supervised content and design.

 

My client is re-tooling his e-commerce intentions and wants to sell other products. He made a request to shut the site down. What I did, instead was to disengage the home page with an .html page announcing coming changes, but left the site intact. People, however can still find pages in the site though search engines.

 

Is there any way to temporarily "shut it down" or "go on vacation" or "closed for repairs?

 

I am a newbie at OSCommerce and have but a smattering of php knowledge. I looked over the admin (and other) options and found no such thing.

 

Suggestions, anyone?

There are several contributions to close your store for maintenance. Search them for "maintenance" and you will find a couple.

 

Tim

[bobg7]

Use one of the down for maintance contributions, it will give you a more professional look, give the customer the impression that you are working to make there visit to your website a better experance.

[Guest]

Use one of the down for maintance contributions, it will give you a more professional look, give the customer the impression that you are working to make there visit to your website a better experance.

 

Thanks for your reply.

 

While "Down for Maintenance" will give a professional look to a temporary hold pattern, I believe the site will be down for a few months while coming up with a new design and product line. That might be too long for a "maintenance" message.

 

Is there any way to modify the message of such a contribution?

 

I now say that on my index.html, but you can still get into the site by other means.