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Quadrant6
Quadrant6

Reputation: 1235

Taking a site down temporarily with Codeigniter (301 possible with routes.php?)

I'm using Codeigniter with the standard .htaccess rewrite rules so that no /index.php/ is visible within the urls.

Now I recently needed to take the site down temporarily and therefore wanted to redirect everyone to a 'down' page. The following worked:

$route['default_controller'] = "down";
$route['(:any)'] = "down";

But I'm aware that in this case, a 301 is really appropriate.

How and where should I set that? I don't see a way to specify it in the routes.php and was confused about how to do it within the .htaccess because of the existing rules....

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^_system.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^myapp.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|resources|files|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1

Upvotes: 0

Views: 363

Answers (1)

Jon Lin
Jon Lin

Reputation: 143906

You don't want a 301 redirect. 301 means "Permanent", and this should only be a temporary redirect. And you can do this with htaccess if you add this above all your other rules:

RewriteRule ^ /down.html [L,R=302]

As long as it's above any of the other rules, then any request will get redirected to /down.html. If you don't want to externally redirect the browser (e.g. have the /down.html URL show up in the URL address bar), then remove the ,R=302 bit from the square brackets and the URL address bar would stay unchanged while the content served is from down.html.

Upvotes: 1

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