On Apr 12, 2005 11:46 AM, Noah <sitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 09:05:20AM -0400, Joshua Slive wrote: > > > > it redirect all queries to the maintenance.html file wich indicates > > > that the site is under construction. > > > now i want to tune this to redirect only certain queries, i want to > > > redirect all queries that want to get this url range : > > > http://myserver/apps/* -> /maintenance.html > > > > > > is there anyone who can help me outta there ? > > > thanks very much > > > > RewriteRule ^/apps.*$ /maintenance.html [L] > > Shouldn't that read: > > RewriteRule ^/apps/.* /maintenance.html [L] > > ...or even: > > RewriteRule ^/apps/ /maintenance.html [L] I assumed he didn't want to insist on the trailing slash. Including it in the RewriteRule will mean that apache will need to issue a redirect to put it on before the rewriterule will take effect. Other than that, all three are equivalent, and I just picked the one I thought would be clearest. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx