total apache redirection to single page?

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

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]

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

<mechphisto@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:e4edf2d4-e898-4d82-bc28-69b6f4a1c4e7@o6g2000hsd.googlegroups.com...
> 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

RewriteRule .* /downmessage.html [L]

.... might be better. The "^" is redundant, and so is the redirection.

On Nov 29, 3:46 pm, "D. Stussy" <s...@bde-arc.ampr.org> wrote:
> <mechphi...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:e4edf2d4-e898-4d82-bc28-69b6f4a1c4e7@o6g2000hsd.googlegroups.com...
>
>
>
> > 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
>
> RewriteRule .* /downmessage.html [L]
>
> ... might be better. The "^" is redundant, and so is the redirection.

Thanks for the tip. =)
I'd found:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod...ml#RewriteRule
and started looking there, and was coming to a similar realization,
but not yet what to do about it.
Thanks!
-Liam

On 29 Nov, 20:23, 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]

Or define the ErrorDocument for 404 responses.

C.