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user2844415
user2844415

Reputation: 71

Htaccess Forwarding: How To Redirect Everything But Root Page

Hi there quick question (regarding htaccess): I want to be able to have my website go down for maintenance easily.

I want everything to be forwarded to /maintenance/index.html except the root / home page. I tried the following:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^$ [NC] #Dont forward the root!
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/maintenance/index.html$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* /maintenance/index.html [R=302,L]

However it didn't work. Going to my website example.com still forwarded to the maintenance page. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? I figure it must be the "!^$" or something.

Thanks a lot!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 781

Answers (1)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 784918

This should work:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/maintenance/index\.html$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.+$ /maintenance/index.html [R=302,L]

.+ will make sure that root page is not redirected.

Also make sure this rule is first rule.

Upvotes: 1

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