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    copied!<p>The pertinent part of my .htaccess looks like this:</p> <pre><code>Options -Indexes &lt;FilesMatch include&gt; Order allow,deny Deny from all &lt;/FilesMatch&gt; RedirectMatch 404 ^/include(/.*)$ </code></pre> <p>And it's generating the following responses:</p> <ul> <li>/include 403 </li> <li>/include/ 404 </li> <li>/include/config.inc 403 </li> </ul> <p>I can tell by looking at my pattern that problem is likely in the (/.*) part but everything I have tried gives me the same results; instead of consistently getting 404 I get a 404 for the one case and 403 for everything else. <strong>What is wrong with the expression I'm using? Alternatively since I have to do this for a few directories is there a blanket approach that would allow me to convert all 403 responses to 404?</strong></p> <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> I've found that by removing the FileMatch I get better results, so my .htaccess now looks like this:</p> <pre><code>Options -Indexes RedirectMatch 404 ^/include(/.*)?$ # Added dlamblin's first suggestion </code></pre> <p>And generates the following responses:</p> <ul> <li>/include 404 </li> <li>/include/ 404 </li> <li>/include/config.inc 403</li> </ul> <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> Interestingly enough I have discovered that the following produces different output:</p> <pre><code>RedirectMatch 404 ^/include(/?|/.*)$ RedirectMatch 404 ^/template(/?|/.*)$ </code></pre> <p>The template pattern works on all cases however include is still generating 403 for all files in include (e.g. /include/config.inc) <strong>Could this be an issue with the directory name and not a problem with the .htaccess file itself?</strong></p> <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> The following in my .htaccess was conflicting with redirect when accessing /include/config.inc.</p> <pre><code>&lt;FilesMatch config&gt; Order allow,deny Deny from all &lt;/FilesMatch&gt; </code></pre>
 

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