Maintenance Magento

Question

I created a CMS page on magento for maintenance page but I need to exempt the IP's of the developer so we can test while the other viewing the maintenance page that I've created.

I activate the maintenance cms page under admin. I make the maintenance page as the home page but since we need to access the front end side (exempt some IP) how can I do it without putting maintenance.flag on the root?

The problem with the maintenance.flag is, that the API should be still accessable.

Answer 1

As others have suggested, you can patch index.php to whitelist IPs from maintenance mode. My usual solution to that is to only patch the file once and retrieve the whitelist from maintenance.flag itself, which feels less dirty and actually makes it less error-prone:

Replace

if (file_exists($maintenanceFile)) {

with

if (file_exists($maintenanceFile) && !in_array($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], file($maintenanceFile)) {

Then add any IP that should be whitelisted to the maintenance.flag file, separated by line break:

127.0.0.1
10.0.0.1

Since you were asking for a non-IP based solution that whitlists all API calls, I suggest this additional check at the same place of index.php:

$isApiRequest = preg_match('#^/api/#, $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
if (file_exists($maintenanceFile) && !in_array($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], file($maintenanceFile) && !$isApiRequest) {

Since as long as you did not create additional rewrite rules for the API, all API entry point start with /api/ you can determine by the URI if the current request is going to the API.

Answer 2

Just put a maintenance.flag in the root. Instead of creating a CMS page edit errors/default/503.phtml and put your stuff in there. Then edit index.php:

if (file_exists($maintenanceFile)) {
    include_once dirname(__FILE__) . '/errors/503.php';
    exit;
}

and edit your IPs as condition to the IF. Make sure that you didn't do something wrong and check e.g. with your phone.

Answer 3

Point your API Requests calls to api.php instead of index.php and avoid the if condition for the maintenance file check in index.php.

• https://github.com/OpenMage/magento-mirror/blob/magento-1.9/api.php

As for the CMS Page, as Fabian mentioned it would be ideal to create it as a static .html page within the root of the store and simply change the reference within your index.php accordingly. The alternative would be adding a condition to the if (file_exists($maintenanceFile)) { in the index.php file but this just complicates the process, but may be ideal for your situation as your wanting to whitelist IPs.

More details on the alternative:

$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$allowed = array('1.1.1.1','2.2.2.2'); // these are the IP's that are allowed to view the site.

then change the line

if (file_exists($maintenanceFile)) {

to

if (file_exists($maintenanceFile) && !in_array($ip, $allowed)) {

Taken from

• http://inchoo.net/magento/maintenance-mode-in-magento/

Answer 4

Magento extension: Easy Site Maintenance (with cms content)

with all futures with ip address manage.