How to Create an Under Construction Page

Building a website is not easy, and it takes time, too! That's why creating an Under Construction page is important, as you might not need your website visitors to be able to see its pages until they're done. There are website programs that let you create your Under Construction page locally on your computer, then upload it to your server to be available all over the internet.

However, an alternative way to construct your site directly with your hosting provider exists. This way, you can make an 'Under Construction' or a 'Coming Soon' page to be displayed to your guests so they don't see the changes you make until it's finished.

A web server commonly reads a list of pages to set as the homepage of your site in this arrangement: index.htm, index.html, index.php, and default.htm. If one of these filenames is read, it'll be displayed on your website's homepage. Web design programs or website builders most regularly create an index.html or index.php page. When you publish your site, regardless of whether it is only for testing, the primary page is likely to be displayed to the public.

In this article, we will discuss:

• Creating an Under Construction Page
• Point Your Domain to the Under Construction Folder
• Review

Below are the steps for creating a placeholder page. Simply work on your website background. Follow the steps below to complete the setup.

Creating an Under Construction Page

Take the following steps to create the Under Construction page.

1. Log in to your FTP client using your FTP credentials.
2. Right-click on the Remote Site area of your FTP client and select Create New Directory to create a new folder.
   
    
3. Name the new folder with 'underconstruction_page.'
4. Double-click on the newly created folder 'underconstruction_page' to enter it.
5. Inside your newly created folder, right-click and select Create new file.
   
    
6. Name the file with 'index.html.'
   
    
7. Right-click on the index.html file and click View/Edit.
   
    
   Note: You should have a text editor installed on your computer, like Notepad.
8. Copy the code below and paste it into your text editor:
   <h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#c0392b;"><strong>THIS SITE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION</strong></span></h1>


9. Click Save.

If you have FTP issues, check our guide on FTP FAQs and Troubleshooting.

Point Your Domain to the Under Construction Folder

After creating your Under Construction folder in your server and uploading your Under Construction page, you will need to point your domain to the Under Construction folder as its directory. Please follow the steps below:

1. Log in to your Account Manager via https://www.networksolutions.com/my-account/login.
2. Click Hosting on the left side of the page.
   
    
   • If you have multiple Hosting packages in your account, click MANAGE next to the package you want to access.
3. Once you are in your Web Hosting Control Panel, go to Assign/Edit Your Domain.
   
    
4. If your domain is listed in the table, click the Edit button on the right side.
   
    
   • If your domain is not listed, select –Add domain not listed, then click Select. Manually type in the domain name and click Select. Be sure to follow the instructions displayed to configure the DNS to point correctly to your site.
     
      
   • If you have not registered a domain yet, you can purchase and register a new domain by clicking BUY MORE PRODUCTS on the bottom left navigation menu. Once the domain is registered, start over from the beginning of step 2 instructions.
5. Under the Directory drop-down of the domain, select/htdocs/underconstruction_page.
   Note: The root directory is the highest-level directory in a hosting package. htdocs is the web root directory for the Unix system. In our hosting packages, this would be the highest-level directory folder you can access and write to.
6. Click the SELECT>> button.
   
    
7. The page will refresh and indicate that the domain has already been pointed to the folder.
8. You will receive a message, 'The following assignment has been submitted to our fulfillment engine. However, Name Server changes may take 24-48 hours to update throughout the Internet.' Be sure to follow the instructions displayed to configure the DNS to point correctly to your site.

Review

By following the steps above, you now know how to create an Under Construction page through your hosting server and point your domain to it. This simple yet important step guarantees that your website visitors will see a professional coming-soon page while you work on building your site behind the scenes. Don't forget to change where your domain points once your finished website is ready to go live.