title: Redirect from root to Specific URI with HTTPD.conf
body: <p>The first rule works fine when the maintenance file is in place.  When it's not - the second rule is not redirecting to the specific URI.  Is there an ordering issue  of rules or ?</p>
  
  <pre><code> #########################################
  
     RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/server_maintenance.html -f
     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/server_maintenance.html
     RewriteRule ^.*$ /server_maintenance.html [L]
  
    #########################################
    ## the %{HTTP_HOST} evaluates to the HTTP header with the name given in this case host.server.org, with NC being non case sensitive.
    ## it will rewrite the url at the server side to append the URI of lawson/portal
    ##########################################################################
     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^host\.server\.org$ [NC]
     RewriteRule ^host\.server\.org$ "https\:\/\/host\.server\.org\/lawson\/portal" [L]
  
    #########################################
  </code></pre>