diff --git a/README.MD b/README.MD
index 1a411ed..05c93e7 100644
--- a/README.MD
+++ b/README.MD
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ Improvements in this fork:
- Cluster toggle, for pow mode only.
- Choose protection modes "none", "pow" or "pow+captcha" per-domain or per-domain+path, with paths taking priority.
- Whitelist IPs/subnets.
+- Maintenance mode page for selected domains.
- Include dataplaneapi, to sync map files to disk if edited during runtime.
- In POW only mode, provide instructions and an encoded script to find the solution.
- Many bugfixes.
diff --git a/haproxy/haproxy.cfg b/haproxy/haproxy.cfg
index 188bc6f..992a791 100644
--- a/haproxy/haproxy.cfg
+++ b/haproxy/haproxy.cfg
@@ -119,6 +119,10 @@ frontend www-http-https
http-request return file /var/www/js/worker.js status 200 content-type "application/javascript; charset=utf-8" hdr "cache-control" "public, max-age=300" if is_worker_js
http-request return file /var/www/img/footerlogo.png status 200 content-type "image/png" hdr "cache-control" "public, max-age=300" if is_footerlogo_png
+ # acl for domains in maintenance mode to return maintenance page (after challenge page htp-request return rules, for the footerlogo)
+ acl maintenance_mode hdr(host),lower,map_str(/etc/haproxy/maintenance.map) -m found
+ http-request return file /var/www/html/maintenance.html status 200 content-type "text/html; charset=utf-8" hdr "cache-control" "private, max-age=30" if maintenance_mode
+
# create acl for bools updated by lua
acl captcha_passed var(txn.captcha_passed) -m bool
acl pow_passed var(txn.pow_passed) -m bool
diff --git a/haproxy/html/maintenance.html b/haproxy/html/maintenance.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..99178f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/haproxy/html/maintenance.html
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+
+
+
+
+ Maintenance Mode
+
+
+
+ Under maintenance. Please try again soon!
+
+
+
+
diff --git a/haproxy/maintenance.map b/haproxy/maintenance.map
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29