Htaccess redirect all in Wordpress?

[Soootylad]

Hi guys,

Any idea how I could modify the htaccess file of a wordpress site to point every page to a temporary holding page?

When I add the standard way of doing it the main WP bit seems to get tripped up and the site doesn't work at all?

 

[Mynight]

What are you using as the standard way? (Just remove the urls if you want but give us the code).

Or just copy the whole htacess removing identifying info.

 

[Soootylad]

I tried this, but it kills the page...

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/goodbye$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.website.com/ [R=307,L]

 

[Mynight]

Just to clarify what you're trying to do;

You want to redirect the entire site to a static holding page whilst you develop the site?

 

[Soootylad]

Yeah, in a nutshell the company is shutting shop so I've done a goodbye page, and want every page that will show up in the search engines just pointing to the one place...