RewriteCond on IP and endless loops

Hope this is not OT for this group.

I'm not sure if there is some server side setting holding me back here.
Would appreciate some help after 8 hours of trying:-/

Does anyone know why this in .htaccess:

a) won't work and throws the server into an endless loop

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^111\.111\.111\.111$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^222\.111\.111.111$
RewriteRule .* "http://www.site.com/go-here.htm" [L]

b) and this *seems* to stall the server (in cgi mode if that helps at all)

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URL} !/"http://www.site.com/go-here.htm"
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^111\.111\.111\.111$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^222\.111\.111.111$
RewriteRule .* "http://www.site.com/go-here.htm" [L]


I just want to redirect some ip's to a specific page. What am I missing?


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Tony

Tony wrote:

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 > Does anyone know why this in .htaccess:

 > a) won't work and throws the server into an endless loop

 > RewriteEngine On
 > RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^111\.111\.111\.111$ [OR]
 > RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^222\.111\.111.111$
 > RewriteRule .* "http://www.site.com/go-here.htm" [L]

You are sending your client right back to your htaccess file,
which redirects back to your htaccess, which redirects back
to your htaccess, which redirects...

Move your go-here.htm to a parallel tree or above your
htaccess directory. Remove "go-here" from your current
htaccess directory / child directory tree.

An alternative,

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*go-here.*$
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^111\.111\.111\.111$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^222\.111\.111.111$
RewriteRule .* "http://www.site.com/go-here.htm" [L]

requested file ! (not) match "go-here" continue process
else quit

if true, continue to next condition / rule
if false, quit

For that case example, your initial htaccess redirect
will create a new url with your go-here, allowing passage,
having returned a false value for the first condition on
the redirect return to the same directory.

Research and read about REGEX matching; there are a lot of
shortcut methods. My example is verbose for clarity.


 > b) and this *seems* to stall the server (in cgi mode if that helps at all)

 > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URL} !/"http://www.site.com/go-here.htm"

^

REQUEST_URI

It is a capital "I" (eye) not an "L" (ell).


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