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PO.htaccess: Hide existing files but use them through RewriteRule
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copied!<p>I have tried this several ways, read a lot of examples and questions here and still can't figure out if it can't be done at all.<br> What I want is to force access to certain files and functions using a certain URL format and deny access (fake 404) to everything else - even existing files/directories.</p> <p>This part works:</p> <pre><code>RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^([\w]+)$ /somefolder/index.php?page=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^person/([\d]+) /somefolder/index.php?page=person&id=$1 [NC,L] RewriteRule ^css/([\w]+\.css) /somefolder/css/$1 [NC,L] RewriteRule ^images/([\d]{4}-[\d]{2}-[\d]{2}/[\d]+\.(gif|jpe?g)) /somefolder/images/$1 [NC,L] </code></pre> <p>The following line, however, causes a 500 internal server error:</p> <pre><code>RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /somefolder/index.php?page=error [R=404] </code></pre> <p>I want that if /somefolder/index.php (or any other file/directory that may or may not exist) is requested by the visitor, it should return 404 and the error page. I also plan on adding this later:</p> <pre><code>ErrorDocument 404 /somefolder/index.php?page=error </code></pre> <p>The .htaccess file is in the root. Is this doable at all?</p> <p>Examples:</p> <p>(pages accessed by users and linked to by other pages)<br> <a href="http://example.com/breakfast" rel="nofollow">http://example.com/breakfast</a> -> <a href="http://example.com/somefolder/index.php?page=breakfast" rel="nofollow">http://example.com/somefolder/index.php?page=breakfast</a><br> (stylesheets used by the pages)<br> <a href="http://example.com/css/default.css" rel="nofollow">http://example.com/css/default.css</a> -> <a href="http://example.com/somefolder/css/default.css" rel="nofollow">http://example.com/somefolder/css/default.css</a><br> (images used in the documents)<br> <a href="http://example.com/images/2011-01-01/test.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://example.com/images/2011-01-01/test.jpg</a> -> <a href="http://example.com/somefolder/images/2011-01-01/test.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://example.com/somefolder/images/2011-01-01/test.jpg</a><br> (everything else)<br> <a href="http://example.com/this/may.exist" rel="nofollow">http://example.com/this/may.exist</a> -> 404 + error page</p> <p>.. which would mean that if someone attempts to get <a href="http://example.com/somefolder/css/default.css" rel="nofollow">http://example.com/somefolder/css/default.css</a> (exists), they wouldn't receive it.</p>

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