under construction page

When building a website, you may not want random visitors snooping your pages until your website is ready. Even while some programs allow you to build your site on your local computer and then publish when you are finished, you still may want to test your site on the live server before opening it to the public. In this case, you may want to place an "Under Construction" page in place:

Having an "Under Construction" page for your website can be useful in a variety of cases. The main goal of such a page is to hide your usual website while it is in an undesirable state.

• Provide a simple landing page during the testing phase of your initial development.
• Prevent hacked content from being accessed while making security updates.
• Display basic site information during renovations.
• Keep your site up even when your more advanced pages are experiencing technical difficulties.

In order to set "Under Construction Page", you may use .htaccess directives: Go to your .htaccess file in the root of your site directory (or create one if it doesn't exist), then insert anywhere: DirectoryIndex yourtemporarypage.html.

Some hosting providers have such services (please contact your hosting provider) or you may use plugins for "Under Construction Page" (for example for WordPress https://wordpress.org/plugins/under-construction-page, https://wordpress.org/plugins/under-construction-wp/).

If the "Under Construction Page" has been set up for your domain, you will see it at URL http://yourdomain.com in the browser. After you finish modifying your website, you may turn off "Under Construction Page" (via .htaccess, services or plugins).