Excluding Maintenance Page in specific directory

Question

Currently I use this code in my .htaccess file to trigger my Site's maintenance page.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/maintenance.html -f
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/maintenance.enable -f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !maintenance.html
RewriteRule ^.*$ /maintenance.html [R=503,L]
ErrorDocument 503 /maintenance.html
Header Set Cache-Control "max-age=0, no-store"
</IfModule>

How Would I make it so I could still access a directory I would be working On and not just my IP address in case my friend wishes to access it.

I have done some searching, but not found anything as of yet

Cheers

Tom

Answer 1

I'd say you can simply implement some exception rules prior to your handling of the maintenance mode:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On

# immediately end all rewriting for specific IPV4 addresses
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^123\.123\.123\.123$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^321\.321\.321\.321$
RewriteRule ^ - [END]

# for everyone else: check for maintenance mode
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/maintenance.html -f
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/maintenance.enable -f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !maintenance.html
RewriteRule ^.*$ /maintenance.html [R=503,L]
ErrorDocument 503 /maintenance.html
Header Set Cache-Control "max-age=0, no-store"
</IfModule>

Alternatively you could add the negated conditions as additional conditions to the maintenance mode rewriting logic. But I think the above is easier to read and maintain.