[Best practice] Maintenance page

[eluser]Clooner[/eluser]
[quote author="n0xie" date="1254319089"]Why not do it like us.

In the root have your index.php and your maintenance.php. If you want to do stuff add this line to mod_rewrite at the very top:

Code:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ maintenance.php [L]

When you're done, just comment it until you need to do another maintenance job...[/quote]

That is also a good option. I use a slightly extended version of my one click deploy system which automatically replaces the index.php files needed and places it back after the update. So I actually don't need to do anything except sit back and relax