How to put magento in maintenance

Question

Is it possible to put a magento site under an maintenance flag so that visitors will get a message that the site is under construction? I can\'t find this setting in the admin a

Answer 1

You may check this article, it has info about puting store to the maintenance for several IPs and have some working examples and needed files:

http://blog.magalter.com/page/how-to-temporarily-block-magento-store-access-put-website-to-maintenance-mode