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

I followed this tutorial to put my Magento store to maintenance mode, you may try as below:

1. Create a file name maintenance.flag in your magento root directory. Contents under this file doesn’t matter, you can keep it empty.

2. Change the maintenance file (located in magento root -> errors -> default directory) to show proper message when user visits your website. Hop this helps