htaccess: how to redirect all pages to a holding page

Question

I have to put a site down for about half an hour while we put a second server in place. Using .htaccess, how can I redirect ANY request to domain.com to d

Answer 1

This works better...

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/holding_page.php$ 
RewriteRule $ /holding_page.php [R=307,L]