On Nov 29, 2:23 pm, dterr...@hotmail.com wrote:
> On Nov 29, 2:56 pm, mechphi...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > We need to bring our sites down for some maintenance, and need to make
> > it so that any URL to a page on our site redirects to a single page we
> > have with the "site down" message.
> > How can I do this?
>
> > I tried setting the DocumentRoot variable in httpd.conf to a directory
> > with the message as an index.html...and of course that works when
> > someone just goes to the basic domain name...but not if someone tries
> > a URL that takes then directly to a different page. They just get
> > requested URL not found on server error.
>
> > If someone can just tell me what part of the httpd.conf to look into
> > to do this, I can research it from there.
> > Thanks!
> > -Liam
>
> What version of apache?
>
> Look into mod_rewrite.
>
> .htaccess
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteRule ^.* /downmessage.html [R]

Doh, sorry.
Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat)

Thanks, I'll look into that! =)
Thanks for the reply.
-Liam