AW: [users@httpd] Unable to redirect ( using mod_rewrite)

<Oliver.Schaudt@xxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 27 Dec 2005 23:51:54 +0100

Hi Rajendra,

there is the line "RewriteCond   %{REQUEST_URI} !^downtime\.html$"
missing, because if you can to redirect all URL's to "downtime.html", 
but you have to exclude the "downtime.html" itself. If not, this will result 
in an infinte loop. 

So your new Block will be

RewriteCond   %{REQUEST_URI}  !^downtime\.html$
RewriteCond   %{TIME_WDAY}%{TIME_HOUR}%{TIME_MIN} >21700
RewriteCond   %{TIME_WDAY}%{TIME_HOUR}%{TIME_MIN} <21759
RewriteRule   /.*  http://<webstite>/downtime\.html
<http://<webstite>/downtime\.html>  [R,L]
RewriteRule   ^/$  /confluence/  [R]

bye

Oliver

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Rajendra Kadam -X (rakadam - eTouch Systems at Cisco) [mailto:rakadam@xxxxxxxxx]
Gesendet: Di 27.12.2005 23:20
An: Apache-HTTPD  Users Mailing list
Betreff: [users@httpd] Unable to redirect ( using mod_rewrite)

Hi Folks,

I want to do time based rewrite in order to display a Downtime page
during DATABASE maintenance.

Htpd.conf has following settings

RewriteEngine on
RewriteLog      logs/rewriteLog.log
RewriteLogLevel 9

RewriteCond   %{TIME_WDAY}%{TIME_HOUR}%{TIME_MIN} >21700
RewriteCond   %{TIME_WDAY}%{TIME_HOUR}%{TIME_MIN} <21759
RewriteRule   /.*  http://<webstite>/downtime\.html
<http://<webstite>/downtime\.html>  [R,L]
RewriteRule   ^/$  /confluence/  [R]

It means on every Sautrday between 2am-3am, any url pointing to our
website should get directed Downtime page. In all other cases, next
Rewrite rule should work!

But whenever I tried to test it; Firefox always fails with following
error :
------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------

The page isn't redirecting properly
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this
address in a way that will never complete.
    *   This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to
accept
          cookies.

Here is Rewrite_Log:

171.71.57.50 - - [27/Dec/2005:17:10:50 --0500]
[wiki-dev/sid#9968800][rid#9a508f0/initial] (2) init rewrite engine with
requested uri /confluence/display/WIKI/Home
171.71.57.50 - - [27/Dec/2005:17:10:50 --0500]
[wiki-dev/sid#9968800][rid#9a508f0/initial] (3) applying pattern '/.*'
to uri '/confluence/display/WIKI/Home'
171.71.57.50 - - [27/Dec/2005:17:10:50 --0500]
[wiki-dev/sid#9968800][rid#9a508f0/initial] (4) RewriteCond:
input='21710' pattern='>21700' => matched
171.71.57.50 - - [27/Dec/2005:17:10:50 --0500]
[wiki-dev/sid#9968800][rid#9a508f0/initial] (4) RewriteCond:
input='21710' pattern='<21759' => matched
171.71.57.50 - - [27/Dec/2005:17:10:50 --0500]
[wiki-dev/sid#9968800][rid#9a508f0/initial] (2) rewrite
/confluence/display/WIKI/Home -> http://wiki-dev/downtime.html
171.71.57.50 - - [27/Dec/2005:17:10:50 --0500]
[wiki-dev/sid#9968800][rid#9a508f0/initial] (2) explicitly forcing
redirect with http://wiki-dev/downtime.html
171.71.57.50 - - [27/Dec/2005:17:10:50 --0500]
[wiki-dev/sid#9968800][rid#9a508f0/initial] (1) escaping
http://wiki-dev/downtime.html for redirect
171.71.57.50 - - [27/Dec/2005:17:10:50 --0500]
[wiki-dev/sid#9968800][rid#9a508f0/initial] (1) redirect to
http://wiki-dev.com/downtime.html [REDIRECT/302]
171.71.57.50 - - [27/Dec/2005:17:10:50 --0500]
[wiki-dev.cisco.com/sid#9968800][rid#9a508f0/initial] (2) init rewrite
engine with requested uri /downtime.html

I'm not sure what's wrong going on here...
Can anybody please help,

thanks,
Rajendra