UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? RedirectMatch - negating a regex

My objective is to write an .htaccess file that redirects all requests to a particular file. This .htaccess file will reside in the top level web root directory.

I've tried this:



The problem is that it results in a request-loop, with the .php file never getting accessed.

I'd like to change the RedirectMatch so that it redirects all requests except for requests for that file. But I don't know how to write a match pattern that accomplishes this. If there were a "RedirectNotMatch" directive, that would solve the problem.

Any ideas?

Would it work if you had an

above the command, and then did a

beneath - or would you still hve a loop?

It would work with directing it to a sub-domain, but that may not be an option here.

Thanks, but that doesn't seem to have any effect.

By redirecting to a subdomain, do you mean:

RedirectMatch .* http://sub.example.com/maint_notice.php

My hosting account allows creation of subdomains. I think they're implemented as subdirectories under the main directory, so the .htaccess file in the main directory might still get processed, but I can try that.

I tried that subdomain approach, but it failed for the above reason.

Did you get this one cracked Dave?

Maybe. I'm trying this:



The first rule catches requests for maint_notice.php, leaves them alone (replacement string = "-") and then stops processing rules (flag = "L"). The second rule catches anything else.

It seems to work, but I haven't fully tested it yet.

Another possibility was suggested in response to a post I made elsewhere, but I haven't tried it yet:



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Edit:

Both of the above methods work. I decided to use the second one, since it seems a little simpler.

I take it that it didn't work, as the code has gone

It worked, but 6.3 has a bug that strips the [ code ] tag. The bug has been fixed here, so I'll repost the code.

P.S. I posted the fix for the code tag in the Infopop threads bugs forum.