Hi all, We have a rewrite rule that we use whenever we want to put a site in maintenance : RewriteMap availability txt:/etc/httpd/conf/availability.ini RewriteCond ${availability:%{HTTP_HOST}|production} !^production$ RewriteRule !/in_maintenance/.* http%{ENV:HTTP_SUFFIX}://%{HTTP_HOST}/in_maintenance/? [redirect] This works as follows: 1) We add the string "www.example.com maintenance" to availability.ini 2) The request is "http://www.example.com/whatever" 3) The RewriteCond checks - in availability.ini - whether the website is in "maintenance" mode (which is the case) 4) and rewrite the requested URL to the maintenance page. Now we have a slightly modified situation where we want to be able to take a part of the website in maintenance. So the main site www.example.com is available but www.example.com/subdir is in maintenance. We tried the following : RewriteMap availability txt:/etc/apache2/availability.ini RewriteCond ${availability:%{HTTP_HOST}/%{SCRIPT_FILENAME}|production} !production RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !${availability:%{HTTP_HOST}} RewriteRule .* ${availability:%{HTTP_HOST}} [redirect] We thought it would work as follows: 1) We add the string "www.example.com/subdir /in_maintenance/index.html" to availability.ini 2) The request is "http://www.example.com/subdir". 3) The first condition checks - in availability.ini - whether the requested part of the website (/subdir) is in maintenance (which is the case). 4) The second condition checks - in availability.ini - whether the given location (/subdir) is NOT equal to the string /in_maintenance/index.html (which is the case). 5) The request is rewritten to http://www.example.com/in_maintenance/index.html When testing however, the string "${availability:%{HTTP_HOST}}" in the second condition is not translated to "/in_maintenance/index.html" but remains "${availability:%{HTTP_HOST}}" Any ideas? Any help is appreciated, but an alternative is welcome also. Regards, Willem.