Maintenance Mode

Question

Okay so I tested the page in IE and it seems to work fine, but when I view it in Chrome I get told the page had too many redirects and nothing loads, I have not tried it in Firefox.
So if you try going to http://mckennastudios.com it should bring you to a maintenance.html page.
Here is what I added to my .htaccess file:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/maintenance.html$
RewriteRule $ /maintenance.html [R=302,L]
If there's a better way that's just as easy to enable/disable maintenance mode for a website please let me know.

Answer 1

Sorry to bump in. But, a 301 redirect would've worked for you - but is very bad practice. You've clearly mentioned you're redirecting users to this page only for 'maintenance'. 301 is used for a 'permanent redirect' - meaning your search engine indexes will go for a toss. Read this: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93633
307 (temporary redirect) is the right way to do it as it tells the client to remember this redirect is only temporary and prompts the client to visit the requested URL the next time - meaning the 2nd time your user enters the 'root' or 'request URL' of your domain name, the client will not be redirected to /maintenance.html, but will look for /index.html or the originally requested URL.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/maintenance\.html$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mckennastudios.com/maintenance.html [R=307,L]
Your original code should work. Where in .htaccess did you put this code? Do you have other lines in .htaccess file? Maybe a possible conflict of rules?
-ST