Question

All I’m trying to do it redirect all users, apart from my ip address, to a “site down” page using the following

 location / {
   rewrite (.*) /sitedown.php redirect;
    allow 94.12.147.139;
    index index.html index.php;
    try_files $uri $uri/ @handler;
    expires 30d;
}

It redirects fine but won’t allow my IP to access the site either. Any help would be grateful.

Answer 1

the following should work:

location / {
  #this is the allow/deny/redirect bit
  allow 94.12.147.139;
  deny all;
  error_page 403 sitedown.php;  

  #regular site config when not denied
  index index.html index.php;
  try_files $uri $uri/ @handler;
  expires 30d; 
}

location /sitedown.php {allow all;}