How do I turn off my website for a while?

[Mike Rose]

I just want to turn off my web site for a few days until I make a few external decisions.

[David at David Simpson Apps]

If it's Confluence Server fronted by Apache or nginx (or anything else) you could just shutdown Confluence and have a catch all/404 page saying "come back in a few days".

Or just stand up a fresh web server service with a catch all page.

[Jonathan Smith]

For server, stopping the confluence service is routinely done for scheduled maintenance. You could take this approach for "turning off Confluence".

@AnnWorley If he is in the confluence-administrators group yet not a sys admin, could he potentially go to global permissions and mark confluence-users as "can't use"? Check mark "can use" when ready to turn it back on. Just seeing if that is a safe option.

[AnnWorley]

That's an idea....As long as no one else is in confluence-administrators he could take out all the can use global permissions for all the individual users and groups. The users would see "not permitted" when they try to log in.

You and I discussed the confluence-administrators group before: Instance health - Internal administrator user error - I have an internal admin account. You can't remove them from global permissions.

Note: Just un-setting "can use" for confluence-users will not take away permissions that are individually granted or granted via other groups. I have seen systems where the most restrictive permissions apply but in Confluence if you have "can use" individually but belong to a group that lacks the permission to use Confluence, you can still log in and use it.

Follow up questions or comments are welcome. :)

[AnnWorley]

Hi Mike,

II am not sure whether you are seeking instructions for shutting down your self hosted Confluence server or if you have a Confluence Cloud instance and you want it made inaccessible or deactivated. I am happy to help with either one.

If it is your own server, please let me know the version and operating system and whether it is stopped and started with a service or a script, if you are the server administrator. If you are not, then the admin should be able to simply shut down the application or make it inaccessible using network devices (proxy, etc). When you want it back on the admin could start it back up and it should be the same as it was.

If it is an Atlassian hosted site then the URL will be https://<your_site_name>.atlassian.net. If that is the case, Atlassian support can help if you open a support request at https://support.atlassian.com/contact.

I look forward to any follow up questions.

Thanks,

Ann