2007/2/26, Paul Coghlan <pcoghlan(a)usa.net>et>:
Could you not rename index.php to index_old.php and
put a new one up with
some nice message and then revert after the upgrade?
This sounds like a good idea. A redirect rule sounds too troublesome to me.
Actually, I raised this question because I though MediaWiki had some
"out-of-service mode" like other server software do. In some of them,
the presence of a file or a configuration option make the software
just output a message saying that it is in maintenance.