making apache redirect all IPs except for mine

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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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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

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answered 16 Oct '12, 10:20

bmeyer71 ♦♦
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edited 16 Oct '12, 10:45

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

(17 Oct '12, 06:41) xpanta

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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.

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answered 16 Oct '12, 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?

(17 Oct '12, 06:40) xpanta

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I have a questions about the Apache redirect script. If I want to redirect my site to a maintenance page. Would I change the rules to the following example below?

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

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answered 25 Nov '14, 18:35

jcorbind
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edited 25 Nov '14, 20:19

seanf
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No, it won't. You're using a host name in the REQUEST_URI test, which won't work.

If you want to redirect requests for example.com, except those requests that come from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, then the rules would be something like:

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

(25 Nov '14, 20:25) seanf

Thank you sir for clarifying that. I came from Cpanel which I used for handling redirects. Obviously it makes it much easier, but not as flexible.

Edit: I also found a simple script pretty much similar to the ones mentioned. Tested and works! :-)

(26 Nov '14, 01:21) jcorbind

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