Symphony.

How do people handle a maintenance page when making changes to Symphony that temporarily breaks if any self and the ability to use the built-in maintenance page?

Some reasons:

• Reinstalling Symphony on a current website
• Troubleshooting Symphony when all hell breaks loose

Would setting up a subdomain, with an appropriate index page and then creating a temporary redirect from the main domain (away from the Symphony installation) to the subdomain be a good idea?

Hmmm... how do you keep Symphony from overwriting the .htaccess file?

Juggling a couple of symlinks à la Capistrano or other deployment systems might be an option. A basic shell script could do this pretty easily I think - just toggling between maintenance.example.com and example.com would be suitable right?

In the past I've modified index.php with a small if condition to check the IP address and serve a static HTML page if the request isn't from my current IP.

In the past I've modified index.php with a small if condition to check the IP address and serve a static HTML page if the request isn't from my current IP.

I like this simplistic approach. Cheers!