Need to redirect users away from /wp-admin/ for maintenance | WordPress.org

Philip Isaacs
(@pisaacs)

10 years, 12 months ago

I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction.

I’m trying to move my live server today and I don’t want contributors loggin in while I do this, so I was thinking of just redirecting people away form /wp-admin/ to a “down for maintenance” page but I have no idea how to do this.

Can I maybe put a line into the .htaccess file or something?

Anyhelp would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Philip

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esmi
(@esmi)

10 years, 12 months ago

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/maintenance-mode/ ?

Thread Starter Philip Isaacs
(@pisaacs)

10 years, 12 months ago

yes, but this takes the whole site down. I only want to take the admin off line.

Philip

esmi
(@esmi)

10 years, 12 months ago

You could try looking for another, more specific, plugin. If you try to use an .htaccess redirect, you’ll just end up locking yourself out of your admin area.
Justin
(@jgwpk)

10 years, 12 months ago
You can do something like
```
Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule /wp-admin http://www.your-redirect-url.com/ [R=301,L]
```
This could however possibly break any ajax on the front end if you have any..

EDIT: You will lock yourself out of admin as well with this code…
Thread Starter Philip Isaacs
(@pisaacs)

10 years, 12 months ago

Thanks Justin! That’s what I need.

Esmi – I don’t need to log into the back end while I’m moving the site.

Awesome, thanks guys!

Philip

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