Router based offline redirect

[aranw]

I was wanting too put a router based offline redirect into the route.php config but I don't believe its supported.

Happy to help add it but could do with some advise on where to begin on adding such a feature.

I was thinking it could be similar too _404_ or _root_ being called _offline_.

Was also thinking of there being a config parameter to indicate if a site is offline?

What do others think of such a feature?

[jschreuder]

I'm not a big fan of something like that as you'll probably take the site offline mostly for updating or similar operations. In which case it's a far better idea to just replace the front-controller or make it use some other file that shows an offline message. Fuel itself shouldn't be used in such a case as any editing/updating/whatever might break it and show your user an error message or a white screen.

[updated]

[aranw]

I was just thinking for times when updating my app data/controllers/models and I didn't want too do it live or replace the front-controller. Obviously if I was to ever update the fuel core then I would take it offline and put a temp index file in place of the fuel front-controller.

Reason as well I was thinking it may be possible to add say a "url bypass" where its a random hash or keyword that lets you view the pages.

[WanWizard]

I agree with Jelmer that if you want to update a live site, your users should never be allowed access to any part of that live site. Even if you're only copying files, there is a timeframe in which your site is not consistent. And that gets worse if you have to do migrations.

I use a simple rewrite for this purpose:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule . /offline.php [L]
</IfModule>

You could also opt to deal with this in your index.php, but even that is part of the FuelPHP application, and could be replaced when you upgrade your code.

[aranw]

mod_rewrite is a good option actually never thought about that.

Thanks for info for the rewrite.