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Hello,

I have to do a lot of modifications in the entries of my blog. During this, I need two things

1. Nobody can read the blog.
2. I can access the administration in order to do the modifications.

How can I do that?

Thanks,
Fabien

Fabien wrote:I have to do a lot of modifications in the entries of my blog. During this, I need two things

1. Nobody can read the blog.
2. I can access the administration in order to do the modifications.

How can I do that?

Assuming that the blog is running on an Apache web server and your web hoster allows you to do so, by adding a password protection by generating a .htapasswd file. (This is completely independent of s9y, by the way.)

See http://www.htaccesstools.com/articles/htpasswd/ (note that they offer an online generator for .htpasswd files as well).

YL

Thank you Yellowled,

You are right. It's a solution, not a perfect one because I should have preferred that visitors see a page saying that the blog is temporarily closed rather than a password form. But I'll use this solution if it's the only one.

Cheers,
Fabien

Another option is discussed here.

I think this should be an administrative option. Opinions?

I have tried to use the Dashboard plugin but it doesn't work for me. So I have used the password solution.

I agree, closing the board should be an administrative option.

Fabien wrote:I have tried to use the Dashboard plugin but it doesn't work for me. So I have used the password solution.

In the forum thread I referenced above, there is an option I use with a temporary .htaccess file, and a corresponding 503.php file. I think this is the best possible solution at the moment. It is also search engine friendly by sending 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable headers.

I've asked the same question in the year 2005 in the german part of this forum: http://board.s9y.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2562

Unfortunately, it is still impossible to deactivate the blog in the admin area ...