How to implement an external splash/coming soon page in C5?
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Hi guys,
I searched the Add-Ons directory for something along these lines but I wasn't able to find anything.
I'm building a site with C5, but I don't expect it will be ready for a number of weeks. In the meantime, I'm hoping to build some buzz around the site while it's under development, and I'd like to have a single one-off page (which I've already built) act as a "splash" page that users will see when accessing the URL where I've installed C5 (rather than being able to access the C5 content that's still undergoing development).
I read in another thread that someone had suggested using "index.html" as the "coming soon" page, as most webservers will direct to this file over an "index.php" page. My concern with doing this is that anyone curious enough and who knows the most low-level web stuff may still be able to navigate to my index.php page and see everything before I get the chance to launch it officially.
Is there any way (whether via a built-in setting or an add-on that I haven't been able to find) to enable a single static page in place of all site content until I'm officially ready to make it all public?
Thanks in advance for any help! :)
I searched the Add-Ons directory for something along these lines but I wasn't able to find anything.
I'm building a site with C5, but I don't expect it will be ready for a number of weeks. In the meantime, I'm hoping to build some buzz around the site while it's under development, and I'd like to have a single one-off page (which I've already built) act as a "splash" page that users will see when accessing the URL where I've installed C5 (rather than being able to access the C5 content that's still undergoing development).
I read in another thread that someone had suggested using "index.html" as the "coming soon" page, as most webservers will direct to this file over an "index.php" page. My concern with doing this is that anyone curious enough and who knows the most low-level web stuff may still be able to navigate to my index.php page and see everything before I get the chance to launch it officially.
Is there any way (whether via a built-in setting or an add-on that I haven't been able to find) to enable a single static page in place of all site content until I'm officially ready to make it all public?
Thanks in advance for any help! :)
If you put the site in maintenance mode, it will show the maintenance mode page. You can then code your splash page within a c5 single page for the maintenance mode page. or you could pull it in via an iframe block added to the maintenance mode page.
How do I edit the maintenance mode page? I looked in single pages directory and there was nothing in there?
Thanks,
Sully
Thanks,
Sully
Well, I found it. I wasn't looking in the concrete directory. I took the source HTML code from my index page and pasted into the: site/concrete/single_pages//maintenance_mode.php file then saved it. It screwed everything up. How exactly should I do this?
Thanks
Thanks
I am wondering this also- I have put up an index.html file which gets loaded before the index.php for the public - but it should be the maintenance mode answer.