URGENT: how to make a global "server temporarily down" page?

Hi, all -- I thought I knew the trick for this, but I don't, and I have about an hour to figure it out. We're going to be taking down our web server for some unavoidable maintenance and we want to put up a polite "we're not here" page rather than just look like we went out of business. We're going to bring up httpd but leave all databases etcetc turned off. How can i make a script, perhaps with an htaccess trick file, which will take example.com/ example.com/login.php example.com/index.php?some&params&etc and always be found? The trick I knew depended on looking in a subdirectory so that I could fake the name, but this has to work from the root. TIA & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) davidtg@justpickone.org * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) davidtgwork@justpickone.org -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!