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I'm working on a project. I can upload a site files to the web server.

I have a site which is running. I want to update my site but I know visitors are coming 24 hours a day. So, how could I update my site without losing visitors?

When I visit big websites under maintenance, in general, I see some another page. I just want to do the same for my website.

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I want to update a whole site not only index.html, should I rename the index.html file to another name to not users come in the website or there is another solution without renaming the file.

I also dont have much idea about .htaccess file all I know is that it is used to redirect domains but I dont know how and what can I do to .htaccess so I dont have rename the index.html file.

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If you want to notify your users that your site is under maintenance, you can temporarily redirect all your pages to a maintenance page with an .htaccess file (if you use Apache as a web server). To do this, add these lines in your .htaccess file:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^123\.456\.789\.000 # no redirect for your IP
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/maintenance.html$ [NC]
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(jpe?g?|png|gif) [NC]
 RewriteRule .* /maintenance.html [R=302,L]
</IfModule>
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How about displaying a message in your main page with something like:

We are currently upgrading this website to serve your better. During this process you may continue browse our website using links below. Please let us know if your encounter any problem...

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