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deadelvis
10-10-2009, 11:44 AM
Hi

Can anyone please help me out with an htaccess rewrite expression?

I am trying to close off my website with a 503 but exclude one of the directories (keep this directory available).

Somehow this expression is not working (accessing the directory also returns a 503) on bluehost and I have no idea why.



RewriteEngine on

# exclude directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/some_dir_name$

# send plain text status code 503 - Service Unavailable
RewriteRule .* - [R=503,L]




Would be VERY thankful is anyone knows what is wrong with it.