Comment on How to Gracefully Take a Site Down For Maintenance?Comments−tocomment19yFor smaller sites, I would just redirect everyone but my own IP address over to a maint.html page.I wrote up how I did it with .htaccess here: http://www.answermysearches.com/htaccess-block-everyone-exce...−BrandonM19yGood thing it's impossible to spoof an IP address. Then again, as long as you're only relying on this for customer service and not for security, I suppose you're fine.−tocomment19yHow do you spoof an IP address?−BrandonM19yhttp://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+spoof+ip+address&i...
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For smaller sites, I would just redirect everyone but my own IP address over to a maint.html page.
I wrote up how I did it with .htaccess here: http://www.answermysearches.com/htaccess-block-everyone-exce...
Good thing it's impossible to spoof an IP address. Then again, as long as you're only relying on this for customer service and not for security, I suppose you're fine.
How do you spoof an IP address?
http://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+spoof+ip+address&i...