How do you disable a service portal?

[robertyoung]

How do you "turn off" a service portal? We've rolled our own and want to turn off the default "sp" portal.

[SaschaWildgrube]

Be careful with that! The 404 page may still display navigation to other pages and deep links to existing pages would still work. 

So if you want to completely hinder users from accessing it, setting 404 as the home page is not enough!

[joshuastanley]

 Just update the url suffix with some long string.

[SaschaWildgrube]

...and make sure that any triggered notification mails don't point back to the portal using the longish new url?

I still insist that the business rule on sp_portal that prevents access to the portal record is the only reliable way! 😄