: 503 status fails to load images or CSS I have the following 503 status set: RedirectMatch 503 ^/(?!index.html) ErrorDocument 503 /index.html Header always set Retry-After "604800" I understand that

@Sent6035632

Have mod_rewrite installed and try this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(.*).png [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(.*).jpg [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/index.html [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(.*).css [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [R=503,L]
ErrorDocument 503 /index.html
Header always set Retry-After "604800"


The 4th line checks the request to see if the part of the URL coming after the domain name is /index.html. The 2nd line checks to see if the URL ends in .gif. The 3rd line checks to see if it ends in .jpg, and the 5th line checks to see if it ends in .css. Add another line below it if you need to enable another file extension.
The 6th line means match anything when all the criteria is true (meaning all the rewritecond directives return true) and redirect it to error 503.

The 7th line sets the error 503 page to the contents of the /index.html page. The last line adds HTTP headers that cause the browser to store the copy of the page for 604800 seconds. This should be removed (and better yet, replaced with a no-caching option) if you plan to fix your site sooner than 604800 seconds.

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@Frith620

As you have done with your current rules, you need to make an allowance for any files that end in .jpg or .png. So for example, I think your redirect match would be:

RedirectMatch 503 ^/(.(html|png|jpg|jpeg|gif)|~)$)


This has the added benefit that it will catch any html file that's being called during maintenance mode. I haven't tested the above, but basically you need to match the file extensions being called.

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