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How can I take my website off the net for a while?

joanne — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:40:47 GMT

Hi there, can someone tell me if it is possible to take my website off the net? its been on for 3 months, but i got carried away, and put it live too soon, its not finnished, i want to now knock it off the web so no one can see it.

regards

joanne

Re: How can I take my website off the net for a while?

orchie — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:32:10 GMT

Do you have standard web hosting or an eShop?

Re: How can I take my website off the net for a while?

joanne — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:53:07 GMT

Hi there, sorry its taken me ages to reply, I just have the basic 2.99 hoasting package.

joanne x

Re: How can I take my website off the net for a while?

orchie — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:32:35 GMT

No worries, can you post your URL?

Re: How can I take my website off the net for a while?

joanne — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:59:20 GMT

http://www.organzabagz.co.uk

thankyou

Regards

Joanne

Re: How can I take my website off the net for a while?

orchie — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:14:48 GMT

Hi Joanne,

There are a number of ways to do this, as I assume you want to continue working on the site I think a redirect is the best way to do this. Try these steps:

1) First create a new page, you can do this simply by opening NotePad on your PC, copy the code below into NotePad, then go to 'File > Save As' change 'Save as type' to 'all files' and then enter the file name as 'index1.html' and save it to your desktop. Then using FTP upload the file to your server.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Organzabagz.co.uk</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
.style1 {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	color: #FF0000;
	font-weight: bold;
}
.style2 {
	font-size: 18px;
	font-weight: bold;
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
-->
</style>
</head>

<body>
<center>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p class="style2">Organzabagz.co.uk</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p class="style1">Our site is currently offline for redevelopment, please come back soon.</p>
</center>
</body>
</html>

2) Open your current 'index.html' file in HTML view (or download to your computer and open with NotePad) and add the current line into the top of the page the line below <title>Organzabagz About Us</title>.

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1;url=http://www.organzabagz.co.uk/index1.html">

(EDIT: this forum obviously doesn't like code there should be only one space between meta and http.)

This should now redirect all visitors to your website to the page http://www.organzabagz.co.uk/index1.html and still allow you to work on the website in EasySite Wizard.

Message Edited by orchie on 23-10-2009 03:14 PM

Re: How can I take my website off the net for a while?

Ian1974 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:21:35 GMT

Another way is to goto www.dnsforms.co.uk and use the dns enquiry form and ask us to point the www records to the BT holding page.

Once you site is finished, ask us to point it back to your webhosting service.

Ian - F -

Re: How can I take my website off the net for a while?

dave — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:04:35 GMT

Using the file manager tool that you will find in the website centre...

double click on public <dir> in the left pane

select the file index.html

click the delete button

job done