Force 404?

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Hi,

 

Is it possible to force a 404 using htaccess and mod_rewrite similar to how redirects are done? I would like to avoid having to create php files to do the redirect in some addon domain directories that I want to make sure are not linked to the main domain, so addondomain_com.example.com should show a 404, whereas hitting addondomain.com directly should not. I haven't had any luck finding an example of this, so I'm thinking it can't be done. Is this true?

 

H

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Apparently this is the way to do it. Rewrite to a file that doesn't exist, which serves the 404 headers:

 

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)\.example.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ idonotexist.html [L]

 

The only problem is that my host's default 404 page shows that the url "idonotexist.html" was not found. It looks like this solution will also necessitate a custom 404.