Returning HTTP 503 using PHP (maintenance page)
If you need to create an "under maintenance" page in PHP without getting Googlebot to index it, create a PHP script.
Let's call it maintenancee503.php and place in the home directory, in this case assume under /www/ARUL/. Add these lines:
header('HTTP/1.1 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable');
header('Status: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable');
header('Retry-After: 3600');
Without using PHP - Apache's httpd.conf file
If you have access to Apache's httpd.conf file, you can edit it to output HTTP 503 code to all requests.
First, create a simple or custom file and call it maintenance503.html under /www/ARUL.
Configure Apache to forward all requests to this script maintenance503.php.
In Apache, this is what you would typically do. Edit httpd.conf or .htaccess file and include these lines:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} !=503
RewriteRule !^maintenance503.html$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/maintenance503.html [L,R=503]
Make sure the Error 503 line contains this:
ErrorDocument 503 /www/ARUL/maintanence503.html
Then restart Apache. If editing .htaccess, you don't need to restart Apache.
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