Shutting down php?

[Sayian]

Is their a way to shutdown php / apache and serve a default document , so i can do some maintenance.

[thorpe]

if you shut down apache you will no longer have a webserver running so you wont be able to serve anything.

[Sayian]

Yea , i realize that , what i meant was , is their an option to make apache stop serving php pages , and serve a default document , so i can do some maintenane on my php application without people using it.

[Drakla]

You could knock up an temporary httpd.conf file telling it to serve all 404s, 200s, etc to a directory with a basic html page in it saying the server is under maintenance, then restart apache using the -f option specifying your new config file. Then when you're done just restart as normal.

Not sure if this would be your idea solution if you still need the server to allow you access elsewhere.