I'm a JavaScript dev with no Drupal experience.
I'm working with a church to redesign their Drupal site after their dev moved on without leaving any notes/documentation/etc. In the meantime, I'd like to put up a few static html pages in place of the Drupal site, without getting rid of all the Drupal data.
Can I just "turn off" Drupal, so that routes now currently powered by Drupal (ie: church.org/worship) will instead render the static file version (ie: church.org/worship/index.html)?
Is leveraging Drupal's "maintenance mode" a possible solution? I found this article, https://drupalden.co.uk/static-maintenance-page-replace-drupals-default-maintenance-mode-page, on replacing the default maintenance page, but what about other routes too?
Thanks for any help!
Drupal’s htaccess redirects requests to the index.php when the file or folder is not present on disk.
This is true on 7 and 8.
If you want to place a static page up at /worship/ create the folder /worship and an index.html in it which will get picked up.
The code looks like,
# Pass all requests not referring directly to files in the filesystem to
# index.php.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
D8 link, https://git.drupalcode.org/project/drupal/-/blob/8.8.x/.htaccess#L134-139