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    i want to close my forum without deleteing it

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    Solved i want to close my forum without deleteing it

    Post by S-t-e-v-e- October 9th 2014, 1:08 am

    help??
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    Solved Re: i want to close my forum without deleteing it

    Post by Ange Tuteur October 9th 2014, 1:38 am

    Hello Steve,

    You can set your forum to holiday mode. This stops registrations, and basically puts all permissions to administrator level.
    Administration Panel > General > Forum > Configuration > Forum on Holiday
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    Solved Re: i want to close my forum without deleteing it

    Post by S-t-e-v-e- October 9th 2014, 1:40 am

    how do you do this ?
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    Solved Re: i want to close my forum without deleteing it

    Post by Ange Tuteur October 9th 2014, 1:42 am

    Go to Administration Panel > General > Forum > Configuration

    Look for the option Forum on Holiday, tick 'Yes', and save.
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    Hover over the question mark for additional information.
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    Solved Re: i want to close my forum without deleteing it

    Post by S-t-e-v-e- October 9th 2014, 1:43 am

    that doesn't close the forum forum down that just stop people registerding on to the forum already do that
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    Solved Re: i want to close my forum without deleteing it

    Post by Ange Tuteur October 9th 2014, 1:49 am

    It also prevents members from making replies and creating topics. You can then set the permissions of viewing forums to administrator level only.

    Another option is to create an HTML page and redirect users that try to view the forum / topics. Other than that, I believe your only option is the forum deletion. Even after the deletion is finalized your forum can still be recovered via the utilities.
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    Solved Re: i want to close my forum without deleteing it

    Post by _Twisted_Mods_ October 9th 2014, 6:24 pm

    Goto
    Administration Panel > Modules > html & javascript > html page management .. create new html page with this code
    turn off use header and footer

     
    Code:
    <head>
    <title>Site Maintenance</title>
    <style>
    body { text-align: center; padding: 0px; background-image: url('http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac50/TwistedKilla/Forumotion/construction-wallpaper-7997-8441-hd-wallpapers_zpsb029092e.jpg'); font: 20px Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #090909; background-size: 100vw 100vh; background-repeat: no-repeat;}
    h1 { font-size: 40px; }
    a { color: white;}
    .h2{position: absolute; left: 65vw; top: 60vh;}


    article { display: block; text-align: left; width: 650px; height: 100%; margin: 20vh auto;  color: #FFFFFF;}
    </style>
    </head>
    <body>

    <article>
    <center><h1>We&rsquo;ll be back soon!</h1></center>
    <div witdh="200vw">
    <p>Sorry for the inconvenience but we&rsquo;re performing some maintenance at the moment.</p>
    </div>
    &mdash; The Team

    <!-Dont Delete this unless you have payed to Remove Forumotion Copyrights-------->

    <a href="http://www.forumotion.com/" target="_blank"><div class="h2">
    <center><font size="2">Create a free forum</font><br>
    <img src="http://im0.all-up.com/static/images/free-hosting-forum.png" HEIGHT="30" WIDTH="30" BORDER="0"><br>
    <font size="2">© 2014, forumotion.com</font>
    </center></div></a>
    <!------------------------------------------------------------------------------->
    </article>

    </body>

    Go back to html page management and copy the Link URL to the new html page

    Now Navigate To Admin panel> Display>Home page>generalities 

    And put this code in the home page message

    Code:
    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL=YourURLHERE" />

    Just Replace The YourUrlHere with the To The Url To The HTML page You Created

    and this is what it will look like

    http://justtesting1.forumotion.com/h1-forum-down


    Last edited by thetwistedkilla on October 9th 2014, 6:30 pm; edited 1 time in total (Reason for editing : forgot somthing)
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    Solved Re: i want to close my forum without deleteing it

    Post by Ramdaman October 9th 2014, 6:47 pm

    Just as a tip if you paid to remove footer links you aren't allowed to remove copyrights.
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