Apache - Filtering URL Help

[ozdon]

I am having an issue with the Apache conf file. 

Here is what I want to do:If a user goes to http://www.site.com/director1/index.html,
I would like the apache config file to search the url and if it finds */director1/*, I would like to redirect to a custom Error Document (thus returning a 404).

i have tried this, but it does not seem to work at all.

<Location ~ "/(director1|director3)/*">
    RewriteRule ^.*$ http://www.site.com/ErrorDocument
    ErrorDocument 404 /ErrorDocument.html
    </Location>

[remmargorp]

Try

<LocationMatch "/(director1|director3)/">
    RewriteRule ^.*$ http://www.site.com/ErrorDocument
    ErrorDocument 404 /ErrorDocument.html
</LocationMatch>

[ozdon]

Yeah, I see where you are coming from, but for some reason I do not think that the "LocationMatch" or "Location" can understand
"RewriteRule ^.*$ http://www.site.com/ErrorDocument".

I thought of another solution, I could just do
RedirectMatch ^/(director1|director2)/.*$ /point/to/errDoc.html

But the only downside is that now the status code is a 302, and I would perfer a 404.....

Any ideas?

[remmargorp]

RedirectMatch allows for status to be passed.

The syntax for RedirectMatch is as follows (if I remember):

RedirectMatch status regex URL

Where status is optional and default is 302

RedirectMatch 404 ^/(director1|director2)/.*$ /point/to/errDoc.html



I also just found this in the apache docs for mod_rewrite:

Although rewrite rules are syntactically permitted in <Location> sections, this should never be necessary and is unsupported.

[ozdon]

I really appreciate your help, but i am now getting this error when i do that.

Syntax error on line 1196 of /usr/local/apache2.0.55/conf/httpd.conf:
Redirect URL not valid for this status

[remmargorp]

Maybe you can't actually pass 404 as a status... I'll have to check it out later