RewriteEngine

[jacko310592]

hey guys,

i found on the net that its supposed to be possible to use multiple RewriteEngine's, but with the following code its not working:

 

#Allows Album page without '.php' ext
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^gallery/album?([a-zA-Z]+)?$ gallery/album.php?$1 [NC,L]


#Redirects all pages to Maintenance page
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine Off
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/images/.*$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/css/.*$ 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/errors/maintenance\.php$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /errors/maintenance.php [R=307,L]

 

at the moment its just setting both of them to 'Off'

 

can anyone suggest why this is happening?

 

thanks guys

[trq]

i found on the net that its supposed to be possible to use multiple RewriteEngine's

 

You either misinterpreted what you found or where mislead.

 

at the moment its just setting both of them to 'Off'

 

can anyone suggest why this is happening?

 

I have not tested this theory, but it would seem obvious that the last directive found is the one that is excepted.

[jacko310592]

someone posted it here, 3rd post down

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum92/197.htm

 

and thats what i thought :/  but just wondered if there was a way of doing it, perhaps somthing i was missing

[trq]

but just wondered if there was a way of doing it,

 

Why? There is absolutely no need for it.

[jacko310592]

so i can keep codes on stand-by incase i need to implement them sometime, without the need of having any of these tempuary codes stored within a different file

[mrMarcus]

if by "stand-by" you mean not being used whatsoever at the moment, then you can also just comment those lines out using #:

 

#RewriteRule ^blah/([a-z]+)/?$ blah.php?foo=$1 [L]

 

the # is the same as // in PHP (or # in PHP for that matter).

[jacko310592]

ahh, great idea mrMarcus, thanks