The purpose of the “Site Maintenance” section is to allow you to define the store behavior while the site maintenance is performed, such as which file should be displayed instead of the normal homepage, if the parts of the usual information should be hidden (e.g. prices), etc.
In order to start defining site maintenance, choose option “Site Maintenance” from the “Configuration” menu.
Figure 132: Defining Site Maintenance
The following screen will be displayed.
Figure 133: Defining site maintenance options
The following parameters are available inside this screen:
Down for Maintenance: ON/OFF false – option for choosing the maintenance mode (choose On to enable)
Down for Maintenance: filename – option for pointing to the desired file that will be displayed in case site is down for maintenance
Down for Maintenance: Hide Header – choose this option if you want to hide the header
Down for Maintenance: Hide Column Left - choose this option if you want to hide the left column
Down for Maintenance: Hide Column Right - choose this option if you want to hide the right column
Down for Maintenance: Hide Footer - choose this option if you want to hide the footer
Down for Maintenance: Hide Prices - choose this option if you want to hide the prices
Down For Maintenance (exclude this IP-Address) - this is an IP address that will still be able to view the shop even when the shop is down for maintenance
NOTIFY PUBLIC Before going Down for Maintenance: ON/OFF – enable this option if you want to give a warning some time before you put your website Down for Maintenance
Date and hours for notice before maintenance – define the date and hours for the notice before the maintenance start
Display when webmaster has enabled maintenance – display the information that the webmaster has enabled maintenance
Display website maintenance period – enable showing of the message about the length of site maintenance
Website maintenance period – set the length of the site maintenance