How to redirect entire site for 1hr

A very valuable member of our forum community passed away last night so I want to close the entire site for 1hr and redirect everyone to a single tribute page and not sure how to do it.

I have a VbAdvanced CMPS home page in the root and my forums are located in their own folder (root/forum/).

Is there a way that any person going to any part of the site can be trapped and sent to a single page?

Thanks for your help

Sorry to hear about your loss.

A few steps:

1. Create a custom static html page called tribute.html with all the info about this forum member (the tribute page) and place this in the root of your website.
2. Put this code in your .htaccess for both / and /forum/

Code:

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !123\.456\.789\.012
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/tribute\.html$
RewriteRule .* /tribute.html [R=503,L]

The first line is optional, but if you add your own IP address there it would let you access the normal site instead of also being redirected to the tribute page. The 2nd line is a check what URL is requested and if it's any different then tribute.html the rule kicks in and passes on to line 3, which does a temporary redirect (status code 503 is meant for maintenance, "Service temporarily unavailable") and redirects any user to /tribute.html.

This code goes after 'RewriteEngine On', but before any other rewrite rules present in your .htaccess file(s).

Please make sure the tribute.html page has noindex, noarchive for robots!

Code:

<meta name="robots" value="noindex, noarchive">

Good luck and I feel for your loss.

Thank you very much iphone

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