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Change your ruleset as follows:
<pre><code id="code-20-40736888-1">RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/maintenance_mode -f
RewriteRule ^\.html?$    /sitedown.html [L]</code></pre>
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Change your ruleset as follows:

RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/maintenance_mode -f
RewriteRule ^\.html?$    /sitedown.html [L]

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I am getting a redirection loop because of above
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I am getting a redirection loop because of above

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Hello, I am using below ReWrite rule to get the maintainence page whenever there is file named maintenance_mode in the DOCUMENT_ROOT. It works fine but I any reference to &quot;a href&quot; for img and css doesn't work and all of them is getting forwarded to /sitedown.html. Appreicate if someone can help in fixing it. Thanks!<br />
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<pre><code id="code-10-28659618-1">RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/maintenance_mode -f
RewriteRule ^.*$    /sitedown.html [L]</code></pre>
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Hello, I am using below ReWrite rule to get the maintainence page whenever there is file named maintenance_mode in the DOCUMENT_ROOT. It works fine but I any reference to "a href" for img and css doesn't work and all of them is getting forwarded to /sitedown.html. Appreicate if someone can help in fixing it. Thanks!

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Require rewrite rule for maintaince page

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