Help with simple Apache RewriteRule please

ericcarlson · 05-22-2009, 04:59 AM

I'm trying to create a rule which simply says "for all incoming page requests EXCEPT those which begin /templates just send everyone to index.html, otherwise pass through unchanged". Its to manage emergency downtime without taking the whole site offline.

I'm a little green but have read around this and tried this:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/templates
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://%{HTTP_HOST}/index.html [L]

But with these in force I just get internal server errors.
Must be easy for a pro ;-)

bathory · 05-22-2009, 07:10 AM

Well I'm not a pro, but testing your rule, I saw that you need another RewriteCond so you can stop the infinite loop:

Code:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/templates
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.html
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://%{HTTP_HOST}/index.html [L]

Regards

ericcarlson · 05-22-2009, 08:19 AM

Doh!
Yup, after figuring out the syntax I missed the infinite loop. Thanks.