[users@httpd] Unable to redirect ( using mod_rewrite)

[Rajendra Kadam -X \(rakadam - eTouch Systems at Cisco\)]

Hi Folks,

 

I want to do time based rewrite in order to display a Downtime page during DATABASE maintenance.

 

Htpd.conf has following settings

RewriteEngine on
RewriteLog      logs/rewriteLog.log
RewriteLogLevel 9

 

RewriteCond   %{TIME_WDAY}%{TIME_HOUR}%{TIME_MIN} >21700
RewriteCond   %{TIME_WDAY}%{TIME_HOUR}%{TIME_MIN} <21759
RewriteRule   /.*  http://<webstite>/downtime\.html [R,L]
RewriteRule   ^/$  /confluence/  [R]

It means on every Sautrday between 2am-3am, any url pointing to our website should get directed Downtime page. In all other cases, next Rewrite rule should work!

 

But whenever I tried to test it; Firefox always fails with following error :

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The page isn't redirecting properly

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

    *   This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept
          cookies.

 

Here is Rewrite_Log:

 

171.71.57.50 - - [27/Dec/2005:17:10:50 --0500] [wiki-dev/sid#9968800][rid#9a508f0/initial] (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /confluence/display/WIKI/Home
171.71.57.50 - - [27/Dec/2005:17:10:50 --0500] [wiki-dev/sid#9968800][rid#9a508f0/initial] (3) applying pattern '/.*' to uri '/confluence/display/WIKI/Home'
171.71.57.50 - - [27/Dec/2005:17:10:50 --0500] [wiki-dev/sid#9968800][rid#9a508f0/initial] (4) RewriteCond: input='21710' pattern='>21700' => matched
171.71.57.50 - - [27/Dec/2005:17:10:50 --0500] [wiki-dev/sid#9968800][rid#9a508f0/initial] (4) RewriteCond: input='21710' pattern='<21759' => matched
171.71.57.50 - - [27/Dec/2005:17:10:50 --0500] [wiki-dev/sid#9968800][rid#9a508f0/initial] (2) rewrite /confluence/display/WIKI/Home -> http://wiki-dev/downtime.html
171.71.57.50 - - [27/Dec/2005:17:10:50 --0500] [wiki-dev/sid#9968800][rid#9a508f0/initial] (2) explicitly forcing redirect with http://wiki-dev/downtime.html
171.71.57.50 - - [27/Dec/2005:17:10:50 --0500] [wiki-dev/sid#9968800][rid#9a508f0/initial] (1) escaping http://wiki-dev/downtime.html for redirect
171.71.57.50 - - [27/Dec/2005:17:10:50 --0500] [wiki-dev/sid#9968800][rid#9a508f0/initial] (1) redirect to http://wiki-dev.com/downtime.html [REDIRECT/302]
171.71.57.50 - - [27/Dec/2005:17:10:50 --0500] [wiki-dev.cisco.com/sid#9968800][rid#9a508f0/initial] (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /downtime.html

I'm not sure what's wrong going on here...

Can anybody please help,

 

thanks,

Rajendra