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Is there an easy way to add a Coming Soon Page. When I work on a clients site I like them to be able to see it as I work on it, at the moment I tend to just add an index.html holding page but this causes problems in that I can't use Pretty URLs and also when you click on home it goes back to the coming soon page.
Just wondered if any one has a solution to make this easy.

Thanks
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cyandesigns replied on at Permalink Reply
I usually just add a static html page in a folder called temp on the server. I can put any graphics or whatever I need for the "coming soon" page in that folder so they are not involved in any of the c5 folders and set up a temporary redirect to that folder through the site's cpanel.

In most cases where there is some sort of logo involved, I make that clickable and link directly to the site.com/index.php file to quickly get home.

You can probably code the autonav to direct the home link to the index.php file, but I find that linking the logo works just as well for the temporary use.
frizzleb replied on at Permalink Reply
frizzleb
As an alternate suggestion if you would like the solution to be integrated with concrete5 why not create a single page and set permissions so that only that page can be access by users who are not logged in.
snapcridge replied on at Permalink Reply
You could also copy maintenance_mode.php file in the /concrete/single_pages directory to the root /single_pages directory and modify it using either this method:
http://www.codeblog.ch/2010/01/concrete5-custom-404-page/...

or this alternate method found on this page:
http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/customizing_c5/custom_err...

Then set maintenance mode in the dashboard. Once the site is up an running modify that page to show something more simple geared toward maintenance instead of coming soon.

I will be implementing this method tomorrow for my site.