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#18129 Emergency Offline Mode Redirect Error

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Latest post by user77751 on Friday, 15 November 2013 12:41 CST

user77751
 One of my sites is under attack, and I'm getting thousands of notifications of IP's being blocked, so I decided the best route is to put the site in Emergency Offline mode for a bit, to get them to lose interest and move on.

Unfortunately, the redirect to the offline.html page doesn't work properly, and users get this error:
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.

I checked the docs, and changed this line in the .htaccess file
RewriteRule (.*) offline.html [R=307,L]
to
RewriteRule (.*) offline.html [R,L]

That hasn't fixed the error.

How do I fix this?

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
There's a small minority of hosts (about 1%) which do not properly support the kind of redirection handling we are doing. Basically, they are the hosts which do not report the hostname correctly to Apache. As far as I know we can't do anything to fix it. I have tried a lot in the past to no avail :(

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

user77751
:(

Hopefully I won't have to use this feature too often. If it's only for an hour, it shouldn't impact my Google Rank.

Thanks for the explanation.

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