https://evan.wtf/tags/.htaccess/Recent content in .Htaccess on Evan HoffmanHugoen-USEvan HoffmanFri, 08 Oct 2010 18:11:42 +0000https://evan.wtf/2010/10/08/putting-up-a-down-for-maintenance-message-using-mod_rewrite-2/Fri, 08 Oct 2010 18:11:42 +0000https://evan.wtf/2010/10/08/putting-up-a-down-for-maintenance-message-using-mod_rewrite-2/<p>Putting this here for safekeeping so my future self can find it. Mod_rewrite is one of my favorite tools, but it&rsquo;s easy to spend 30 minutes crafting a 2-line directive that actually does what you want. I put this in a .htaccess file in the DocumentRoot of the server, put a &ldquo;We&rsquo;re down&rdquo; message in maintenance.html (or whatever), and all requests will get a 302 redirect to /maintenance.html, except requests for /maintenance.html (for obvious reasons). It appends the original request in case you want to do something with it but that&rsquo;s not really important. It also doesn&rsquo;t do the redirect for images/js/css so those can actually be used in the maintenance message.</p>https://evan.wtf/2010/10/08/putting-up-a-down-for-maintenance-message-using-mod_rewrite/Fri, 08 Oct 2010 18:11:42 +0000https://evan.wtf/2010/10/08/putting-up-a-down-for-maintenance-message-using-mod_rewrite/<p>Putting this here for safekeeping so my future self can find it. Mod_rewrite is one of my favorite tools, but it&rsquo;s easy to spend 30 minutes crafting a 2-line directive that actually does what you want. I put this in a .htaccess file in the DocumentRoot of the server, put a &ldquo;We&rsquo;re down&rdquo; message in maintenance.html (or whatever), and all requests will get a 302 redirect to /maintenance.html, except requests for /maintenance.html (for obvious reasons). It appends the original request in case you want to do something with it but that&rsquo;s not really important. It also doesn&rsquo;t do the redirect for images/js/css so those can actually be used in the maintenance message.</p>