Quickest/easiest way want to redirect entire site to single page?

[Angry Girl]

Hi,

I'd like to make it such that all pages on our website "redirect" to a single page (the one protesting Bush's inauguration tomorrow, as per
http://bushblackout.com).

The target page is in the same domain as the redirected pages. Although if this is a nightmare, then I suppose I could find another page outside that domain. What about a subdomain? I have a few of those?

What's the easiest/quickest way for me to do this? No, my site doesn't use CSS :-( and I don't want to have to go through every single page to redirect or whatever....



Anybody have any ideas?

Thanks!

[kerouac]

1. use htaccess

You should be able to use .htaccess in your main site folder with a redirect command.

[Xithras]

2. Delete the site and put the temp page in the 404 template

Deleting isn't actually required. You can also just change the sites base path to an empty folder. When the visitor requests a page, the server will be unable to find it and return a 404. If you've replaced the 404 template with your temporary page, they'll get that instead.

I've done this numerous times on IIS and once on IPlanet, and I'd assume that it will work on Apache as well (admittedly, I've never tried it though).

[Angry Girl]

3. thank you both!

After screwing up cpanel's redirect (by using the incorrect syntax * and then not being able to remove it!) I ended up playing with .htaccess.
But then it turned out I'm limited on the redirects with my account and since it's just a temp thing, I just swapped out a few pages. Inelegant and slow but it's done.... http://www.nightweed.com :-)

Thanks again!