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#27584 Disable site access during restore

Posted in ‘Akeeba Backup for Joomla! 4 & 5’
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Latest post by on Friday, 26 May 2017 17:17 CDT

kriru
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Description of my issue:

My site is www.guru99.com

I want to delete the entire site and restore new site from fresh1.guru99.com

For this I am using Akeeba Backup with Angie

All is fine during retore

But the issue my site has good traffic

The restore will take approx 20 minutes

During this time any user that access guru99 will see https://www.screencast.com/t/CeYtnlRZ

This is not desirable at the user could potentially harm the restore process.

What can be done?

tampe125
Akeeba Staff
Hello,

yes, there's an option for that in Kickstart. Please take a look at here and search for "Stealth mode". Basically everyone without your IP will be redirected to a temporary page.

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

🇮🇹Italian: native 🇬🇧English: good • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Rome (UTC +1)
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kriru
Hi,

I am using akeeba with joomla for long and very comfortable with Angie restore

I will have a huge learning curve with Kickstart

I did some experimentation and found that during restore akeeba adds some code to index.php to redirect to the installation folder.

Can this redirection be avoided?

I would directly go to guru99.com/installation folder users see garbled data for some time and everyone is happy

tampe125
Akeeba Staff
Using Kickstart is the only available option. By the way, Kickstart will only extract the archive on your remote server, then ANGIE kicks in and the restoration starts.
For your information, the redirection is performed by Joomla core: if the installation folder exists, a redirect is automatically issued.

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

🇮🇹Italian: native 🇬🇧English: good • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Rome (UTC +1)
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

kriru
Thanks for the help

How about I rename the installation folder to say "myfolder"

in this way joomla does not see installation and redirect while I can access myfolder and proceed with installation?

tampe125
Akeeba Staff
No, this is the intended behavior.
If you want to block access to visitors, you have to use Kickstart stealth mode.

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

🇮🇹Italian: native 🇬🇧English: good • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Rome (UTC +1)
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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