On 4/28/21 7:45 PM, theni...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hope I'm putting this in the appropriate mailing list.
>
> A minor (I hope) potential feature request for httpd:
>
> I wish to redirect clients not from a certain IP (e.g. my public IP at
> home) to a different location, temporarily. The purpose of this is to
> allow setting up a "maintenance" page so that I can properly test my
> site with a piece of mind before actually making it available to
> other visitors. I personally consider this a crucial ability.
>
> The way I would usually solve it via Apache is to use RewriteCond and
> RewriteRule. For httpd, however, it could suffice to implement a simple
> "redirect" directive maybe:
>
> redirect [not] <ip-address> to <uri>
>
> I could then accomplish what I want using two location blocks:
>
> location match "^/maintenance.html$" {
> root "/htdocs/example.com/maintenance"
> }
> location match ".*" {
> redirect not my.ho.me.ip to scheme://host/maintenance.html
> }
>
> I warmly welcome other ideas to accomplish this as well.
>
> Thanks.
>
one way to accomplish this is to put your testing site on a subdomain
and the maint page on the main domain. only allow your ip to the testing
subdomain. allow all to maint domain. when done testing, swap things
out. there may be a way to block/allow with existing rewrite
rules/features, but i'm not very experienced with httpd and relayd, so i
would have to look it up, and i'm too lazy for that right now. :)
