Hi,

I am shutting down my forum for maintenance and would like all my SEO URL's to a single page.

How can I achieve this ??? like all SEO to -http://site/forum/index.html

thanks
YB

found the solution anyways...

May be helpful to someone.

- renamed the forum folder
- created 404.shtml file with message
- denied robots.txt for all bots

simple !!

thanks
YB

For maintenance, you don't want to use robots.txt, because bots do not expect the disallow to be temporary.

Way to go would be to just use the phpBB acp to close the forum while you're working on it, or eventually to HTTP 302 redirect everything to a custom page, but you would need to use a condition on your ip to let you in in the mean time, with maintenance.html as your maintenance page and xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx as your ip it would be like :

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RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !maitenance\.html$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ maitenance.html [L,NC,R=302]

Actually this is little more than a regular maintenance. It could be for a long time.

I'll check on your suggestions too.

Thanks for the tip

thanks
YB