netone Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 Is there a way to put WHMCS completely into a maintenance type of mode while we make updates and changes? If so, could someone point me to how? Thanks 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickendippers Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 Nope, this is definitely something I'd like to see. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drac0 Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 When I was setting up my site, I simply put up a index.html page in place with the information I wanted to show. I'm not sure if it works this way across the board, but on my hosting server and the servers I maintain at work, the index.html page takes precedence over index.php. So if your customers go to http://domain.tld/whmcs/ it would load index.html but nothing can stop them if they are going directly to http://domain.tld/whmcs/index.php, http://domain.tld/whmcs/clientarea.php, etc. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
othellotech Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 yep having an index.htm which we rename back to index.off when not in "maintenance mode" use is exactly how we do it as well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netearth Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 But do the users not know the direct location of the login? for instance in suppor tickets or welcome emails etc? Chris 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverNodashi Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 But this isn't really the right way todo it. Cause if a client comes to your billing site looking for something, and find a message saying it's in manintenance mode, it's fine. But, if the same client forgot where to find your billing, and then look for a link in his emails which could have taken him to knowledge base, downloads, status, etc, then they still get the site. Instead it needs to go into maintenance mode like vBulletin does 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netearth Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 Completly agree SoftDux 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.D Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 One thing. Today I was upgrading and I asked the same question then I went to my client area and noticed it is on Maintenance Mode So when the install folder is there it is in maintenance mod. It was a relief. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drac0 Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 But this isn't really the right way todo it. Cause if a client comes to your billing site looking for something, and find a message saying it's in manintenance mode, it's fine. But, if the same client forgot where to find your billing, and then look for a link in his emails which could have taken him to knowledge base, downloads, status, etc, then they still get the site. Instead it needs to go into maintenance mode like vBulletin does Agreed, but in a pinch, not being able to find any maintenance mode function, it was the best I could come up with at the time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckdragon Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 couldn't you just modify the header template and then set your own variable in like configuration.php that says if it's in maintenance mode or not.. and if it is, if they goto index.php or clientarea.php the template says "if it's in maintenance mode, show this, otherwise do what I'm supposed to" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverNodashi Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 sure, it could be something as simple as that, but I do think we sould submit a feature request for it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverNodashi Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 I've just submitted a feature request 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckdragon Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 looks like it's been added to the tracker as well 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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