making apache redirect all IPs except for mine

hi,

I want to shut down my site (in django on Apache) for a day to upload many changes (and do some more testing). What I would like to do is to redirect all incoming traffic to a static page (that says that we will be back shortly), but the requests from my (and my collegues) IP address should work normally.

Is that possible? How?

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asked Oct 16 '12 at 07:11

xpanta
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Another option you might want to take a look at is django-maintenancemode. That will allow you to put up a static page to let your visitors know the site is down for maintenance but still allow you to work on the site.

There is this one as well django-site-maintenance

answered Oct 16 '12 at 10:20

bmeyer71 ♦♦
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edited Oct 16 '12 at 10:45

Thank you. django-site-maintenance plugin seems more active and both are very easy to install and configure.

(Oct 17 '12 at 06:41) xpanta

Hi,

You can accomplish this using mod_rewrite via .htaccess. Here are some sample rules you can add:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !^xxx\.xxx\.xxx\.xxx
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/staticpage\.html$
RewriteRule (.*) /staticpage.html [R=302,L]

This would redirect all users that don't have the IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx to the "/staticpage.html" URL.

I hope this helps.

answered Oct 16 '12 at 07:40

todork
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Thank you. Is it possible to not redirect for two or more IPs? Do I also need to configure Nginx?

(Oct 17 '12 at 06:40) xpanta

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