Redirecting site during update

Hi

I've been trying to redirect all sited request to a one page that will
communicate that the site is being updated and apologize for the inconvenience
...........

I've been trying .htaccess but it doesn't want to work?

What am I doing wrong?

Redirect / http://www.mysite.com/update.htm

Is there a better way to do it?

Thank you

"mgorinstein" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Hi

I've been trying to redirect all sited request to a one page that will
communicate that the site is being updated and apologize for the
inconvenience
..........

I've been trying .htaccess but it doesn't want to work?

What am I doing wrong?

Redirect / http://www.mysite.com/update.htm

Is there a better way to do it?

Thank you

Forgive me for asking but is that your real url?

Terry

.oO(mgorinstein)

I've been trying to redirect all sited request to a one page that will
communicate that the site is being updated and apologize for the inconvenience
..........

I've been trying .htaccess but it doesn't want to work?

What am I doing wrong?

Redirect / http://www.mysite.com/update.htm

Please don't use real existing URLs, use www.example.org or ~.com
instead for example URLs, they are made for this.

Anyway, you can't do this with the Redirect directive. It replaces a
part of old URLs with the given new URL, this won't work in your case
(the above will lead to an endless loop).

Is there a better way to do it?

Try it with mod_rewrite if available. Put this in your .htaccess:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !update.htm$
RewriteRule .* /update.htm [R]

This rewrites and redirects all URLs except for the update page itself.
If you want the old URLs to stay in the browser's address bar remove the
[R] flag from the rewrite rule.

HTH
Micha

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !update.htm$
RewriteRule .* /update.htm [R]

For some reason it didn't work.
The pages requested were not displayed but in place of update.htm I got an
error 500

.oO(mgorinstein)

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !update.htm$
RewriteRule .* /update.htm [R]

For some reason it didn't work.
The pages requested were not displayed but in place of update.htm I got an
error 500

Do you have access to the raw logfiles? There should be more information
in the server's error log in case of internal server errors.

Micha

Here goes the error log:

[Fri Jul 2 04:29:33 2004] error parsing access file
/ch/files5.rt/0DA/mysite.com/web//.htaccess, line 1, reason: unknown Directive
[Fri Jul 2 04:29:33 2004] Error parsing access file [Fri Jul 2 04:29:33 2004]
shpd: access to /ch/files5.rt/0DA/mysite.com/web/ failed for 65.10.xxx.xxx,
reason: client denied by server configuration from - [Fri Jul 2 04:29:42 2004]
error parsing access file /ch/files5.rt/0DA/mysite.com/web//.htaccess, line 1,
reason: unknown Directive [Fri Jul 2 04:29:42 2004] Error parsing access file
[Fri Jul 2 04:29:42 2004] shpd: access to /ch/files5.rt/0DA/mysite.com/web/
failed for 65.10.xxx.xxx, reason: client denied by server configuration from -

.oO(mgorinstein)

Here goes the error log:

[Fri Jul 2 04:29:33 2004] error parsing access file
/ch/files5.rt/0DA/mysite.com/web//.htaccess, line 1, reason: unknown Directive

Hmm, it's possible that mod_rewrite is not available. You should ask
your host.

Micha