Re-direct viewers till my sites ready?

[Cookiepus]

i want to re-direct to main.html till my sites ready.
main.html contains 'under construction' text

My .htaccess contains text below

DirectoryIndex main.html index.htm index.php

This works in that main.html is what is shown.

The problem im having now is even when i type in my index.php URL
i get re-directed to main.htm.
so i cant see my zencart homepage

if i remove .htaccess, then i (and everyone else) sees my unfinished zencart index page

Help please!
Cookie

[stevesh]

Is there a reason you don't just rename main.html to index.html, or is your server configuration such that index.html doesn't load first ?

[Cookiepus]

Hi
it was index.html
i just changed it to 'main.html' try to fix the problem.
re:server configuration -yes - index.html doesnt load
if i remove the .htacces
the server goes straight to my zencart index.php
i just need to see this page privately

Thanks

[stevesh]

I haven't seen a server set up that way, but the only other thing I can think of would be to password-protect the site, usually doable in your hosting control panel.