Change default page in yii

Question

I'm fairly new to yii, would like to know how to change the default page pra that instead of going to the index is directed to a page comingsoon I have.

Thanks for your time.

Answer 1

You can create a new controller with it's own view: comingsoon (see http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/1.1/en/topics.gii).

Add this in: protected\config\main.php

'defaultController' => 'comingsoon', 

Answer 2

Method 1: Change view page rendered in SiteController.php's index action:

public function actionIndex() {
    $this->render('index'); // change to "comingsoon"
}

Method 2: Let 404 error page display a coming soon message.

Method 3: Redirect to error page using URL manager rules in main.php:

'urlManager' => array(
    'rules' => array(
        'index'=>'site/index', // change "site/index" to "site/comingsoon"
        ...

Method 4: .htaccess rewrite.