[support] How to lock the website while moving website?

[Afan Pasalic]

  One more thing. I have few not used domains. Would it be better/easier 
to install Drupal version of existing website on not-used domain, on the 
same server, same hosting company, same account, and them "switch" mysql 
and "sites"?
I'm assuming it could be less work and faster then upgrading from local 
machine?

Afan


On 1/15/2011 9:44 AM, Afan Pasalic wrote:
>  Hi,
> the website on my local machine is done and ready to be moved to 
> online server. After reading other people's 
> questions/answers/posts/comments/opinions - I think it shouldn't be a 
> big deal. Though since I'm doing it for very first time I expect some 
> "sudden" issues. Even the website doesn't have a lot of traffic, I 
> would like to avoid messages visitor can get, like "Page not found" or 
> something. And because of website owner too - he's not going to like 
> the message for a couple of hours, or even more.
>
> Right now old website is visible (live) and to replace it with new one 
> I have to remove it.
> Now, my question is: How do I make "The site is temporarily down for 
> upgrades" message on screen WHILE upgrading the website?
> Is it possible to create a file, something like 
> "under_maintenance.html",  with the message in it, and redirect all 
> visitors to that page using .htaccess? But it shouldn't compromise 
> installing Drupal, moving stuff round etc.?