Redirect ALL requests under a domain to static page

Question

I am trying to redirect ALL requests for mydomain.com whether they are something like:

• http://www.mydomain.com
• http://mydomain.com
• http://mydomain.com/photos
• http://mydomain.com/index.php?id=672

to be redirected to

• http://mydomain.com/index.html

As long as it has mydomain.com in it, they should see this page - its a we'll be back soon message.

Should I do it in .htaccess or conf? How?

Solution

I actually ended up finding the answer on ServerFault:

https://serverfault.com/questions/32513/url-redirect-to-another-page-on-the-same-site

"This example will 302 redirect all URLs to "/underconstruction.html":

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/underconstruction.html
RewriteRule ^ /underconstruction.html [R=302]

(which translates as "If URI is not /underconstruction.html, redirect to /underconstruction.html")" - Tommeh

Comments

[T. Brian Jones]

If this does not work at first, try changing the apache.conf (on linux: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf ) setting AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All inside the <Directory "/var/www/html"> configuration. Then restart apache ( on linux: /etc/init.d/httpd restart )