A common requirement when performing maintenance on your website is to redirect all requests to a downtime message. This can be very easily achieve using mod_rewrite and a .htaccess file. Simply create an .htaccess file with the following commands: RewriteEngine OnĀ  RewriteRule !^site-down\.html$ /site-down.html [L] This will redirect all requests to the site-down.html file. Once [...]