.htaccess redirect to all IP's but mine

Question

Basically, I am trying to work on the front end of a website, but I would like everyone else but myself to be redirected to a construction page if you like. I currently have:

redirect 301 /index.php http://www.domain.com/construction.php 

While this works, it works to well, I would like to be able to still see the live site myself, is it possible to exclude everyone but my IP?

Thanks again.

Answer 1

You could do it with mod_rewrite

Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !=123.45.67.89 RewriteRule index.php$ /construction.php [R=301,L]