Patrol 3

Easy Maintenance Mode and Smart HTTPS Routing

Features 🚀

HTTPS Routing 👮‍

• Force HTTPS (server agnostic)
• Force a Primary Domain (naked domain vs www prefixed)
• Define where HTTPS is enforced (if not globally)
• Control the best redirect status code for your use case

Maintenance Mode 🚧

• Put your site on maintenance mode
• Define who can access the site while offline
• Reroute guests to an offline page (or custom response)

Install

composer require selvinortiz/patrol

./craft install/plugin patrol

...or you can search for Patrol in the Plugin Store.

Configure

You can configure some stuff through the control panel, but doing so is not recommended. File configs are much more flexible and you can define different configs for different environments.

return [
    '*' => [
        'primaryDomain' => null,
        'redirectStatusCode' => 302,

        'sslRoutingBaseUrl' => "https://mysecuredwebsite.com",
        'sslRoutingEnabled' => true,
        'sslRoutingRestrictedUrls' => ['/'],

        'maintenanceModeEnabled' => false,
        'maintenanceModePageUrl' => '/offline',
        'maintenanceModeAuthorizedIps' => ['::1', '127.0.0.1'],
        'maintenanceModeResponseStatusCode' => 410,
    ],
    'dev' => [
        'sslRoutingEnabled' => false,
    ]
    'staging' => [
        'maintenanceModePageUrl' => null,
        'maintenanceModeResponseStatusCode' => 410,
    ],
    'production' => [
        'redirectStatusCode' => 301,
        'maintenanceModeResponseStatusCode' => 503,
    ]
];

Config Settings

$primaryDomain

Defaults to null

Primary domain to enforce

If your site is accessible via multiple domains, you may want to ensure that it can only be accessed by the primary domain.

Example

• domain.frb.io (App URL)
• www.domain.com (Secondary)
• domain.com (Primary)

If a user requests www.domain.com or domain.frb.io, they will be redirected to domain.com

$redirectStatusCode

Defaults to 302

Redirect status code to use when...

1. redirecting to and from SSL restricted URLs
2. redirecting to primary domain, if one is defined.

$sslRoutingBaseUrl

Defaults to Craft::$app->request->hostInfo

Tells Patrol what base URL to use when redirecting to SSL

$sslRoutingEnabled

Defaults to false

Tells Patrol to force requests to be made over https://

$sslRoutingRestrictedUrls

Defaults to ['/'] (everything)

Tells Patrol where https:// should be enforced.

$maintenanceModeEnabled

Defaults to false

Tells Patrol that your site is on maintenance mode and it should start routing traffic differently.

Authorized users will see your site while unauthorized users will see either your offline page or an HTTP response with a custom status code.

$maintenanceModeAuthorizedIps

Defaults to ['::1', '127.0.0.1']

IP addresses that should be allowed (without being logged in) during maintenance.

$maintenanceModeResponseStatusCode

Defaults to 410

Tells Patrol what kind of HttpException to throw if you do not set a $maintenanceModePageUrl.

$maintenanceModeAccessTokens

Defaults to []

Access tokens that can be used to automatically add an IP to the allowed list.

If you define the following access tokens:

$maintenanceModeAccessTokens =  [
    'ceo-access-token',
    'd0nn3bd8a2iza1ikjxxdo28iicabh7ts',
];

You will be able to send someone a link with the access token. When the visit that link, their IP will be added to the allowed list.

• https://domain.com/?access=ceo-access-token
• https://domain.com/?access=d0nn3bd8a2iza1ikjxxdo28iicabh7ts

You can use any string as an access token but avoid using spaces.

If you are planning on using access tokens, do not include $maintenanceModeAuthorizedIps as a file config setting.

Help & Feedback

If you have questions, comments, or suggestions, feel free to reach out to me on twitter @selvinortiz

License

Patrol for Craft CMS is open source software

MIT License