I've been doing a lot of reading throughout the day and I am really confused with how Umbraco does maintenance pages.
The prevailing advice appears to be use app_offline.htm in the root folder. While this works for bulk file uploads it doesn't really work if I want to amend the content or perform other functionality checks before releasing to the wild.
I've tried to follow the guide here but it doesn't appear to work for IIS 8.5.
What is the best way to put Umbraco into maintenance mode while retaining access to the CMS for certain users?
Very timely (but also very new) - I've just now released a maintenance mode package (https://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/maintenance-manager/) - Which lets you switch your site into maintenance mode via the back office.
but
The IIS Rewrite stuff will work on IIS8.5 but i think you need to install the URL Rewrite module as its not installed by default on older windows server builds.
https://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/url-rewrite
we wanted to add Maintenance Manager to one of our older pages in Umbraco v8.
It turns out, it doesn´t work with pages that extend RenderMvcController. Is this a known issue, and is there a workaround?
Best, Gerhard
Maintenance Mode
I've been doing a lot of reading throughout the day and I am really confused with how Umbraco does maintenance pages.
The prevailing advice appears to be use app_offline.htm in the root folder. While this works for bulk file uploads it doesn't really work if I want to amend the content or perform other functionality checks before releasing to the wild.
I've tried to follow the guide here but it doesn't appear to work for IIS 8.5.
What is the best way to put Umbraco into maintenance mode while retaining access to the CMS for certain users?
Hi
Very timely (but also very new) - I've just now released a maintenance mode package (https://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/maintenance-manager/) - Which lets you switch your site into maintenance mode via the back office.
but
The IIS Rewrite stuff will work on IIS8.5 but i think you need to install the URL Rewrite module as its not installed by default on older windows server builds. https://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/url-rewrite
I already posted this in a separate question here:
https://our.umbraco.com/forum/using-umbraco-and-getting-started/110150-maintenance-manager-rendermvccontroller
we wanted to add Maintenance Manager to one of our older pages in Umbraco v8. It turns out, it doesn´t work with pages that extend RenderMvcController. Is this a known issue, and is there a workaround? Best, Gerhard
any ideas?
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