404 Error Message when unpublishing site.

[botunkus]

Just learned that if I unpublish my site for routine maintennance - visitors get the dreaded 404 page not found message. This is a real problem especially for business sites. There should be a way for weebly to allow you to bring up a site undergoing maintenance page.

[Queso]

Hello, and welcome!

Unpublishing your site will indeed cause a 404 message to appear, as the site will be completely offline. For routine edits, you can simply make the changes in the editor and publish them when they're finished, no downtime required.

If you'd like to make changes that require downtime in specific, however, a fast solution would be to create a maintenance page, and set the other pages on the site not to appear in navigation, which would keep visiting users from intruding. If you have a plan like Pro or Business, you can also password the pages in question, meaning that they wouldn't be able to access them, even when directly linked.