"Turning" your website off?

[molesquirrel]

So, I run a number of small websites on my server space, across different directories/subdomains, etc, etc. Occasionally (like now), I want to make a few db and php updates to files/structures that almost all of my website relies on (a few site engines for php), and I'm wondering if there's an easy way to 'shut down' access to everything for the time being. I'm looking in the way of an Apache redirect of some sort, but it needs to be able to catch ALL page requests, regardless of directory.

Thanks in advance!

[Vin DSL]

Give this a try: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum92/167.htm

[JasonM]

I just posted something similar in another thread. mod_rewrite is your friend :-)

In a .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /underconstruction.html


that will forward everything to /underconstruction.html on your server. You can leave a message for your visitors there.

[molesquirrel]

Great! Thanks to both of you . I figured there might be the answer in another thread, but I couldn't think of a good way (read: query string) to search the forums for it

[Brian77]