How to turn your site offline in Joomla Print

This tutorial assumes you are already logged in to your Joomla admin panel

 

Setting the site to offline allows only administrators to access it. This is useful for editing the site when you don't want other people to see it

1) Click Site

 

2) Then Global Configuration

 

3) Next to Site Offline, click Yes

 

 

At this point, you can also edit your offline message which will be displayed to the user on the login page

4) Click Save

 

Now that our site is offline, only administrators will be able to log in. Let's go to our site

 

5) Click Preview

 

 

This is the page that will be displayed with your site logo, name and offline message

Let's log in as administrator

6) Type your username

 

7) Enter your password

8) Check Remember Me if you would like to be logged in automatically from now on

 

9) Click Login

 

You can now browse your site and make any necessary changes

 

When you are finished, make sure to enable your site again. Let's do that now

 

Return to your admin panel

 

10) Go to the Global Configuration options

11) Click No next to Site Offline

 

12) Click Save

 

That's it! You now know how to set your site to offline mode in Joomla