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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Afan Pasalic <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:afan@afan.net">afan@afan.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
One more thing. I have few not used domains. Would it be better/easier<br>
to install Drupal version of existing website on not-used domain, on the<br>
same server, same hosting company, same account, and them "switch" mysql<br>
and "sites"?<br>
I'm assuming it could be less work and faster then upgrading from local<br>
machine?<br>
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Afan<br>
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On 1/15/2011 9:44 AM, Afan Pasalic wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
> the website on my local machine is done and ready to be moved to<br>
> online server. After reading other people's<br>
> questions/answers/posts/comments/opinions - I think it shouldn't be a<br>
> big deal. Though since I'm doing it for very first time I expect some<br>
> "sudden" issues. Even the website doesn't have a lot of traffic, I<br>
> would like to avoid messages visitor can get, like "Page not found" or<br>
> something. And because of website owner too - he's not going to like<br>
> the message for a couple of hours, or even more.<br>
><br>
> Right now old website is visible (live) and to replace it with new one<br>
> I have to remove it.<br>
> Now, my question is: How do I make "The site is temporarily down for<br>
> upgrades" message on screen WHILE upgrading the website?<br>
> Is it possible to create a file, something like<br>
> "under_maintenance.html", with the message in it, and redirect all<br>
> visitors to that page using .htaccess? But it shouldn't compromise<br>
> installing Drupal, moving stuff round etc.?<br>
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