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Feb 19, 2013 5:40 PM

Okay so I tested the page in IE and it seems to work fine, but when I view it in Chrome I get told the page had too many redirects and nothing loads, I have not tried it in Firefox.

So if you try going to http://mckennastudios.com it should bring you to a maintenance.html page.

Here is what I added to my .htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymlinks

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/maintenance.html$

RewriteRule $ /maintenance.html [R=302,L]

If there's a better way that's just as easy to enable/disable maintenance mode for a website please let me know.

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1. Gabriel McKenna,

Feb 19, 2013 5:50 PM in reply to Gabriel McKenna

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I have now also tried:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/maintenance\.html$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mckennastudios.com/maintenance.html [R=307,L]

with the same exact results

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2. Gabriel McKenna,

Feb 19, 2013 5:57 PM in reply to Gabriel McKenna

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Please note I have now changed the remote site so the maintenance page is index.html because I can't have it sitting like that incorrectly. But I still need to resolve this problem for the future.

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3. Ben Pleysier,

Feb 19, 2013 6:40 PM in reply to Gabriel McKenna

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Have you tried
Redirect /index.html http://mckennastudios.com/maintenance.html

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4. Gabriel McKenna,

Feb 19, 2013 6:55 PM in reply to Ben Pleysier

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SO is that the only thing I put into the htaccess or is it replacing one line?

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5. Ben Pleysier,

Feb 19, 2013 7:03 PM in reply to Gabriel McKenna

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If it is only the redirection that you are worried about at this stage, the above will be the only line.

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6. Gabriel McKenna,

Feb 20, 2013 3:22 AM in reply to Ben Pleysier

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Alright it works, but is there any way for me to add an exception for specific ip addresses?

EDIT: Nevermind it's not working, so before I just re-uploaded my maintenance.html and the .htaccess and it worked. But after I added all of my files it still went to my index.php

I tried this line:

Redirect /index.php http://mckennastudios.com/maintenance.html

but it does not work. I also found another problem with this, if a user has a bookmark to another page on my site...then they will still be taken to that page. So this actually does not work for what I need, I just need somebody to help me get the script below to work in google chrome, because as I said it seemed to work in IE:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^MY\.IP\.GOES\.HERE
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/maintenance\.html$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mckennastudios.com/maintenance.html [R=307,L]

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7. Gabriel McKenna,

Feb 21, 2013 6:19 PM in reply to Gabriel McKenna

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*Bump* Does anybody have any further help on my issue?

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8. Nancy O.,

Feb 23, 2013 12:47 PM in reply to Gabriel McKenna

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Try this:

RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mckennastudios.com/maintenance.html [R=301]

Nancy O.

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9. mhollis55,

Feb 23, 2013 12:56 PM in reply to Gabriel McKenna

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Did you restart Apache? When you edit your .htaccess file, sometimes you have to restart web services to make it "stick." Same with php.ini.

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10. Gabriel McKenna,

Feb 24, 2013 7:15 PM in reply to Nancy O.

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It works! Thank you so much Although, could you explain the difference between what you did and what I had? THe only thing I really see is 301 instead of 307, L

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11. Sudarshan Thiagarajan,

Feb 24, 2013 9:56 PM in reply to Gabriel McKenna

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Sorry to bump in. But, a 301 redirect would've worked for you - but is very bad practice. You've clearly mentioned you're redirecting users to this page only for 'maintenance'. 301 is used for a 'permanent redirect' - meaning your search engine indexes will go for a toss. Read this: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93633

307 (temporary redirect) is the right way to do it as it tells the client to remember this redirect is only temporary and prompts the client to visit the requested URL the next time - meaning the 2nd time your user enters the 'root' or 'request URL' of your domain name, the client will not be redirected to /maintenance.html, but will look for /index.html or the originally requested URL.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/maintenance\.html$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mckennastudios.com/maintenance.html [R=307,L]

Your original code should work. Where in .htaccess did you put this code? Do you have other lines in .htaccess file? Maybe a possible conflict of rules?

-ST

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12. Nancy O.,

Feb 25, 2013 8:40 AM in reply to Sudarshan Thiagarajan

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I used a 301 to force the move thinking they're might be other .htaccess files on your server that were creating a conflict. Check with your host. But Sudarshan is correct. 307 is a better choice if you can get it to work.

Nancy O.

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13. Gabriel McKenna,

Feb 25, 2013 7:04 PM in reply to Nancy O.

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There are not any other interfering .htaccess files. It is again weird though as even that stopped working just in google chrome, I am always being told "too many redirects"

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14. Sudarshan Thiagarajan,

Feb 25, 2013 8:00 PM in reply to Gabriel McKenna

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In the 1 .htaccess file you have, do you have any other rules? Can you copy & paste them here?

I'm assuming this .htaccess is in the webroot folder (public_html / www)?

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15. Gabriel McKenna,

Feb 26, 2013 7:37 PM in reply to Sudarshan Thiagarajan

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I believe I said this in a previous reply. My htaccess has absolutely nothing in it except for the statements in here. Whenever I try I new one I delete the old lines and replace them. I do not have any other rules

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16. Sudarshan Thiagarajan,

Feb 26, 2013 9:47 PM in reply to Gabriel McKenna

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Try this:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/maintanence.html$
RewriteRule $ /maintenance.html [R=307,L]

Also, instead of creating the file locally and pushing it to the server, do you have cPanel access or something to your server where you can create a new file, name it .htaccess and put all of this in it from your web-control panel and not via FTP?

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17. Gabriel McKenna,

Mar 3, 2013 6:29 AM in reply to Sudarshan Thiagarajan

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So now with that option it's not working on any browser, I een used the cpanel to create the file. Also, I apologize for my delayed response. But instead of .htaccess is there any well known script I could use? Since the .htaccess seems to be providing a lot of problems.

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