htaccess for construction page?

[realmuffin]

Hi, I've got a site at impactgr.com and I'd like users to see a 'notice' page (comingsoon.html) which announces our new website (currently in development). I did this by writing the following to the htaccess file:

DirectoryIndex comingsoon.html

Then that page links to my index.html page (which is my old homepage).

The problem is that Wordpress (currently installed in a sub-directory) doesn't like that I've done this. So my question is, is there a way I can make my comingsoon.html page show up when someone visits my site, still link to the old index.html link, and not interfere with wordpress?

Thanks for any help!

[ZeldaBoy]

You could probably use mod_rewrite to direct yourdomain.com/ to the comingsoon.html page, and still have access to your index.html

I'm not an expert with mod_rewrite, and maybe you can't use it for the base URL, but this might work if you add it to your htaccess:

RewriteEngine On # Turn on rewrite engine
RewriteRule ^yourdomain.com /comingsoon.html

- You might also have to uncomment the line with the mod_rewrite.so module to turn on rewriting.