Rewriterule muck up

Rails
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ok, want to have my nice rails/mongrel app show a maint page when
available…

trying to do something like this…
http://jonathan.tron.name/articles/2006/07/26/apache-2-0-x-mongrel-mod_proxy-mod_rewrite-configuration

my vhost rewrite rules are…
RewriteEngine On
RewriteLog /var/log/apache2/rewrite_engine_log
RewriteLogLevel 3
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/maintenance.html -f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !maintenance.html
RewriteRule ^.*$ /maintenance.html [L]

my rewrite log is…
127.0.0.1 - - [09/May/2007:13:55:07 --0500] [/sid#81d0960][rid#836a748/
initial] (1) pass through /
127.0.0.1 - - [09/May/2007:13:58:11 --0500] [/sid#81d0960][rid#836a748/
initial] (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /
127.0.0.1 - - [09/May/2007:13:58:11 --0500] [/sid#81d0960][rid#836a748/
initial] (3) applying pattern ‘^.*$’ to uri ‘/’
127.0.0.1 - - [09/May/2007:13:58:11 --0500] [/sid#81d0960][rid#836a748/
initial] (1) pass through /

SOOO…it just passes on thru everything, uggg

Any Rewrite experts out there ?

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http://jonathan.tron.name/articles/2006/07/26/apache-2-0-x-mongrel-mod_proxy-mod_rewrite-configuration

my vhost rewrite rules are…
RewriteEngine On
RewriteLog /var/log/apache2/rewrite_engine_log
RewriteLogLevel 3
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/maintenance.html -f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !maintenance.html
RewriteRule ^.*$ /maintenance.html [L]

You have a typo… or at least don’t have the same code he has… his
file
is in the /system directory… Here’s the configs I’ve used in the past
that have worked for me when public/system/maintenance.html exists…

Check for maintenance file and redirect all requests

( this is for use with Capistrano’s disable_web task )

RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/system/maintenance.html -f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !maintenance.html
RewriteRule ^.*$ /system/maintenance.html [L]

-philip

3

Yeah, I have mine in public/maintenance.html, I did try moving it to
system under he superstition that maybe that mattered, but it did
not. The really confusing thing is that the rewrite log says
"comparing to /^.*$/ (ie everything), and then passing thru, come on,
it’s gotta match !