Wordpress redirect all except my IP

Question

I have two wordpress websites NEW and OLD with permalinks. The OLD website is locatet at http://website.com/old and the NEW is located at http://website.com.

I want to redirect all exept my IP to the OLD website (http://website.com/old) using .htaccess.

The default .htaccess located at the main directorie (http://website.com) is:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

I've changed this to the following (where xx.xxx.x.xxx is my IP):

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !^xx.xxx.x.xxx
RewriteRule .* http://website.com/old [R=302,L]
</IfModule>

At this point I can redirect all to the OLD website exept my IP. The problem is when I navigate to any page on my NEW website like http://website.com/contacts it retuns:

Not Found
The requested URL /contacts/ was not found on this server.
Apache Server at website.com Port 80

Any idea? Thanks

Answer 1

You must keep Wordpress' main rule after your IP-check

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# if not my ip then redirect to old version
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !^xx\.xxx\.x\.xxx$
RewriteRule . old [R=302,L]

# if we're here, it means it's me so display new version
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
</IfModule>