Hi all, We have a rewrite rule that we use whenever we want to put a site in maintenance (included below). It has served us well for a few years but as we are using more and more Java web-apps we would like to be able to extend our script with the ability to put a just a part of a website in maintenance. For example, currently we put a site into maintenance by adding the following line into a rewrite map: www.example.com maintenance GET's are then redirected to /in_maintenance (location is defined in the rule) What we would like to be able to do is : www.example.com/java-app /subdir/to/in_maintenance.html So, any GET's to /java-app gets redirected to /subdir/to/in_maintenance.html We have tried a few scenario's (included below) but were unable to get it to work properly. A push in the right direction would be much appreciated! IN DETAIL : - Our current in-maintenance-mode rewrite rules : RewriteMap availability txt:/etc/httpd/conf/availability.ini RewriteCond ${availability:%{HTTP_HOST}|production} !^production$ RewriteRule !/in_maintenance/.* http%{ENV:HTTP_SUFFIX}://%{HTTP_HOST}/in_maintenance/? [redirect] This works as follows: 1) We add the string "www.example.com maintenance" to availability.ini 2) The request is "http://www.example.com/whatever" 3) The RewriteCond checks - in availability.ini - whether the website is in "maintenance" mode (which is the case) 4) and rewrite the requested URL to the maintenance page. - Our most succesfull attempt at a new ruleset : RewriteMap availability txt:/etc/apache2/availability.ini RewriteCond ${availability:%{HTTP_HOST}/%{SCRIPT_FILENAME}|production} !production RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !${availability:%{HTTP_HOST}} RewriteRule .* ${availability:%{HTTP_HOST}} [redirect] We thought it would work as follows: 1) We add the string "www.example.com/subdir /in_maintenance/index.html" to availability.ini 2) The request is "http://www.example.com/subdir". 3) The first condition checks - in availability.ini - whether the requested part of the website (/subdir) is in maintenance (which is the case). 4) The second condition checks - in availability.ini - whether the given location (/subdir) is NOT equal to the string /in_maintenance/index.html (which is the case). 5) The request is rewritten to http://www.example.com/in_maintenance/index.html When testing however, the string "${availability:%{HTTP_HOST}}" in the second condition is not translated to "/in_maintenance/index.html" but remains "${availability:%{HTTP_HOST}}" Regards, Willem. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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