How to Whitelist API for Maintenance flag

Question

I have our site whitelisted via the index.php file and it works however the whitelist does not work for the SOAP API access.

Is there an easy fix to add the whitelist for API access?

Answer 1

in the index.php you could add a check that searches the REQUEST_URI for a part of the WSDL url. Something like this:

if (file_exists($maintenanceFile) && !strstr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 'api/?wsdl')) {
    include_once dirname(__FILE__) . '/errors/503.php';
    exit;
}

Another option would be to use the api.php instead of the index.php to handle API calls. In your .htaccess uncomment the following line to enable

#    RewriteRule ^api/([a-z][0-9a-z_]+)/?$ api.php?type=$1 [QSA,L]

Answer 2

I was able to make this work by adding the servers internal IP address to my white list