Redirect your visitor to maintenance page is a must when you are upgrading your site. Now you can redirect your user to maintenance page easily by using .htaccess file. I guess you do not want your visitor to see an error page or 404 page during your dedicated server upgrade. So just follow the steps below to create a .htaccess file to redirect your visitor to maintenance page during upgrade:-
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Redirect to maintenance page during upgrade using .htaccess
Block IP from accessing website using .htaccess
To block certain ip address from accessing your website, just create a file with name .htaccess at your root directory with the content below:-
order allow,deny deny from 192.168.0.1 allow from all
If you want to block multiple ip address using .htaccess simply add one ip address per line as below:-
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Password protect directory with .htaccess and .htpasswd
If you have some files to share among friends in your web server, you can use .htaccess to password protect your directory. To enable this password protect directory feature without any web control panel (ex: CPanel, Ensim, DirectAdmin or etc) is a bit troublesome. No worry, the tutorial below will teach you how to password protect directory using shell or CPanel.
To password protect your website folder with shell command:-
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