CakePHP 2.1.0: How to Create “Down for Maintenance” Page

Question

I\'m trying to implement something like Mark Story\'s \"Down for Maintenance\" page using CakePHP 2.1.0. I\'m pretty close to achieving this, but I\'m running into two issues th

Answer 1

A more elegant way would be to add a route overriding any other one at the very top of routes.php:

//Uncomment to set the site to "under construction"
Router::connect('/*', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'underConstruction'));

//any other route should be underneath 

If you want to add any condition you can also do it here:

define('MAINTENANCE', 0); 
if(MAINTENANCE > 0 && $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] !='188.YOUR.IP.HERE')
    Router::connect('/*', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'underConstruction'));
}