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

joanne
Member

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

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orchie
Grand Master
Do you have standard web hosting or an eShop?

joanne
Member

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

 

joanne x

orchie
Grand Master

No worries, can you post your URL?

joanne
Member

http://www.organzabagz.co.uk

 

thankyou

 

Regards

 

Joanne

 

orchie
Grand Master
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

Ian1974
Moderator
Moderator

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 -

dave
Guru

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