where would i put the coding to display the "under maintenance" page when i load up my website.

sorry i am a noob at web language.

i know its in my root directory of my website but im not sure which file to put it in.

i have the .html file that would display "this site is currently under going maintenance" but i do not have the script nor the knowledge on where to place the script.

any help would be appreciated.

thank you very much (:

usually the server first loads index.php. if he doesn't find that (or don't got php installed) then he opens index.html.

one possibility:
temporarily rename index.php to index.php.temporarydisabled and copy your html file to the top directory

i renamed index.php to index.php.temporarydisabled and i copied the undermaintenance.html to my root directory and renamed it to index.html and it still doesn't show the page.

did i do something wrong?

does it still show your original index page?

well then you could also try that: rename your index.html to index.php

it still doesn't work i get a parked page

you really have to start providing more info/detail on what you've got, what you're seeing, where your page is, what you tried (including code/files), and so on.

you can't really expect to get any help just by saying "it doesn't work".

sorry.. uh well i did what the other guy suggested and changed my index.php to index.php.temporarydisabled and i put the undermaintenence.html in my root directory of my website and changed its name to index.php

more info, like... where is your site?

This post was edited by irimi on Jul 2 2012 03:18pm

well its hosted on a virtual server ip 173.201.177.63 domain name is gkusainc.com