Any way to redirect user for site mantainence?

Is there any easy way to force redirect users for a site mantainence? Im having trouble with this...

Thank you in advance.

If you want you can put a custom index.html and then users will see this page. You will navigate to www.yoursite.com/index.php to manage your web site :)

http://www.boonex.com/forums/topic/Under-Construction.htm

http://www.boonex.com/m/under-construction-splashpage

[edit] this module was in our market long ago and was free...

Here's something old but I have hacked to work on 7.1

see in action here.. http://mynewbeetle.net/7.1/help.php

the zipped file below, unzip, upload the "deeemm" folder to your modules and replace your design.inc.php in /inc (PLEASE MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR ORIGINAL DESIGN.INC.PHP)

now this is a hack, after saving your "message" you will have to manually clean your cache..

WARNING THIS IS A HACKED MODULE NOT FULLY TESTED, IT WILL PUT YOUR SITE IN MAINTENANCE MODE WITH ANY MESSAGE YOU PREFER, JUST MAKE SURE YOU SAVE YOUR ORIGINAL COPY OF DESIGN.INC.PHP

There is also this.

http://www.boonex.com/m/Site_Maintenance_Mode_Mod

 Sorry about that Deano, forgot, just did a quick market search and that was first..

besides, yours actually show the site, but informs it's down for maintenance, much better. 

I have used the Site Maintenance mod and it is great because it prevents the users from making any changes to the site/database while you are working on things.  I used it when I migrated my site because users will often bookmark sections of the site and go directly there.

 which one?

I prefer Deano's. Specifically since not only can you customize the message displayed on the fly, but you can also choose to allow admins to freely browse the site while changes are being made to make sure what you are doing works.

Oh and the simple click on/off option :)

Im using Prashanks solution http://www.boonex.com/forums/topic/Under-Construction.htm

If I pay X amount of money to every recommended Modification or server then things would sum up to at least hundreds of dollars. Then things would turn into a gamble since I dont want to lose my investment into dolphin and mods and server, so I would buy additional mods and so on....

I dont want that to happen and I dont want to have a dead beta website for 7 years, dwelling in this forum and ending up as part of the development team, which is why im trying to do things on my own and quickly so that I can start business with my music community.

Deano's Site Maintenance Mode; you can easily switch it on and off as needed and the price is great.

The problem is that you have no idea how someone will enter the site.  If you create a custom index.php file, someone may have bookmarked http://fancy_dolphin_site.net/member.php so your index.php file is bypassed.

What you can do is to change where your domain name is pointing, and put that on a "Site is in Maintenance" site.  People use domain name, not IP address, so you can work on your site using the IP address.

Now the $10.00 Deano mod does work on 7.1 as I used it on 7.1.  It blocks members from doing anything on your site.

I have no idea how you manage your site, so it is hard to give information here.  I would look at what GoDaddy can do for you. 

 Well, I didn't thought about this but can be easily accomplished by making a change in this http://www.boonex.com/forums/topic/Under-Construction.htm

 Just make sure it is for all entry points into the site, /forums, groups, chat, etc. anywhere someone may have bookmarked to enter the site.

You really need to redirect the domain name.  If you were using Nginx, this would be a piece of cake; and chocolate cake at that.  You would simply point the domain name to a different directory that only contained a static html page.  You would continued to access your site using the IP address.

Anyway, redirect the domain name to a new directory using .htacess in your web root.  Then no matter what URL they enter, it will take them to the new directory with your static HTML page stating the site is under maintenance at the moment.  I have done this when I wanted to use a directory for a site and the domain name provided by the host was pointing to the web root.

Updated http://www.boonex.com/forums/topic/Under-Construction.htm 

There you go and that should work even if you are not using Apache.