pitch-gist/gist:2999707

Kifle-Tesfay · 2025-04-15T00:21:41Z

Thank you all of you.

Let me contribute my 2 cents
Add this in to .htaccess
So only the owner or allowed IP address can access the website when it is under maintenance mode
Read the comment for each section

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On

  # -------------------------------------------------------------
  # MAINTENANCE MODE SWITCH
  # Set to "on" to enable maintenance mode, "off" to disable it.
  # This can also be set from Apache config or a PHP script using `SetEnv`.
  # -------------------------------------------------------------
  SetEnvIf Request_URI "^" MAINTENANCE_MODE=on

  # -------------------------------------------------------------
  # 1. ALLOWED IPs: If maintenance mode is ON and user is allowed,
  # redirect them away from /maintenance to the homepage
  # (They shouldn't see the maintenance page)
  # -------------------------------------------------------------
  RewriteCond %{ENV:MAINTENANCE_MODE} =on
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/maintenance/?$ [NC]
  RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^17\.53\.18\.152$ [OR]
  RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^98\.76\.54\.32$ [OR]
  RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^55\.66\.77\.88$
  RewriteRule ^ / [R=302,L]

  # -------------------------------------------------------------
  # 2. BLOCKED IPs: If maintenance mode is ON and the IP is NOT allowed,
  # redirect everything (except assets and maintenance page) to /maintenance
  # -------------------------------------------------------------
  RewriteCond %{ENV:MAINTENANCE_MODE} =on
  # Allow static assets to be accessed
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(css|js|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|svg|woff|woff2|ttf|ico)$ [NC]
  # Allow the /maintenance page itself
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/maintenance(?:\.php)?/?$ [NC]
  # Prevent redirect loop if original request was /maintenance.php
  RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !/maintenance(?:\.php)? [NC]
  # Block if IP is NOT allowed
  RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^17\.53\.18\.152$
  RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^98\.76\.54\.32$
  RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^55\.66\.77\.88$
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /maintenance [R=302,L]

  # -------------------------------------------------------------
  # 3. MAINTENANCE MODE OFF: If the mode is off and someone tries to
  # access /maintenance, redirect them to the homepage
  # (No one should see the maintenance page)
  # -------------------------------------------------------------
  RewriteCond %{ENV:MAINTENANCE_MODE} =off
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/maintenance(?:\.php)?/?$ [NC]
  RewriteRule ^ / [R=302,L]

  # -------------------------------------------------------------
  # 4. BLOCK direct access to /maintenance.php
  # This prevents even allowed IPs from visiting /maintenance.php directly
  # -------------------------------------------------------------
  RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/maintenance\.php [NC]
  RewriteRule ^maintenance\.php$ / [R=302,L]

  # -------------------------------------------------------------
  # 5. REMOVE .php EXTENSION
  # Allows users to access /filename instead of /filename.php
  # (e.g., /maintenance will internally map to /maintenance.php)
  # -------------------------------------------------------------
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
  RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ $1.php [L]
</IfModule>

Instead of adding a whole Cloudflare CSS CDN for 3 icons only, you can use these svg icons instead for faster load

Credit to chatGPT for helping me in the .htaccess code.

	<!doctype html>
	<title>Site Maintenance</title>
	<style>
	body { text-align: center; padding: 150px; }
	h1 { font-size: 50px; }
	body { font: 20px Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333; }
	article { display: block; text-align: left; width: 650px; margin: 0 auto; }
	a { color: #dc8100; text-decoration: none; }
	a:hover { color: #333; text-decoration: none; }
	</style>

	<article>
	<h1>We’ll be back soon!</h1>
	<div>
	<p>Sorry for the inconvenience but we’re performing some maintenance at the moment. If you need to you can always <a href="mailto:#">contact us</a>, otherwise we’ll be back online shortly!</p>
	<p>— The Team</p>
	</div>
	</article>

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Kifle-Tesfay commented Apr 15, 2025 • edited Loading

Kifle-Tesfay commented Apr 15, 2025 •

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