Thursday, 14 June 2007

#7 - Testing Joomla site changes while site is offline

Sometimes when you need to make drastic changes to your website, you put you site offline, so that your clients get a site offline message and don't see any temporary incorrect configurations.

You as the developer / administrator of the website need to be able to see the live changes. To do this you need to open a new tab / window (and connent to your live site url) in the same browser where you are logged on as administrator doing the backend changes. If you have maintained the browser session correctly the actual current content is generated beneath the site offline message. Other users who hit your site while the site is configured as offline will only see the site offline message, and only you (due to being logged on as administrator) will be able to see the changes.

The essential thing for this to work, is that you need to ensure that you need to have two windows / tabs running under the same browser session.

 

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whoisanand  - Zakas   |61.17.77.xxx |2007-12-18 13:01:50
Good Info !
furizu  - thanx for the tip!   |60.50.109.xxx |2008-05-02 06:11:38
Hey, cool tips.

I'm still new at Joomla. Could use all the help I can get.
Takimaru  - Other Solution   |122.3.173.xxx |2008-10-21 04:57:09
Log in at the back-end page. or the admin page. After you successfully access
the page. Click the 'Preview' link located at the top right corner. Hope this
can help.

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-thanks
alex   |86.73.41.xxx |2009-06-03 16:30:07
i'm a beginner and i put my joomla site offline. When i connect to my admin
panel and i click on "preview" it show always the offline page
how can
i fix that ? i can't test my site offline, please help.
thx
Bryan  - We Rock 09     |65.78.96.xxx |2009-06-09 11:01:36
I have tried new tab, new window, etc., but all I see is the offline box and
have to log in to see my changes.

I am running 1.5.10. Perhaps this no longer
works in newer versions?

Bryan
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