Problem redirecting 403 Forbidden to 404 Not Found
I can understand why the /include isn't caught by your RedirectMatch, you aren't making the end '/' optional, however the /include/config.inc part is a bit on the puzzling side.
Here is what I got to work on Apache 2.2:
<FilesMatch /include(/?|/.*)> Order allow,deny Deny from all</FilesMatch>RedirectMatch 404 ^/include(/?|/.*)$This handles these cases:
/include 404/include/ 404/include/config.inc 404I had to change the FilesMatch part in order for the /include part to work properly.
EDIT:
The match line also works without the <FilesMatch> section in .htaccess and gives the expected results.
Another possibility is not to bother matching the whole path:
RedirectMatch 404 ^/includeIf there are publicly visible URL paths that might start with "/include" (say, "/includeMe"), a small addition will separate the private from the public URLs:
RedirectMatch 404 ^/include(/|$)
With rewrite mod:
RewriteEngine onRewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/\.RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [R=404]Every file or dir who begin with a dot will be redirected to 404.
/myDir/.svn => 404/.gitignore => 404/dir1/dir2_dir3/Or to change all 403,400 errors into 404 errors, put this at the end of /etc/apache2/conf.d/localized-error-pages OR into a .htaccess
# Will raise a 404 error, because the file <fake_file_for_apache_404.php> doesn't exist.# We change 403 or 400 to 404 !ErrorDocument 400 /fake_file_for_apache_404.phpErrorDocument 403 /fake_file_for_apache_404.php# We need to rewrite 404 error, else we will have "fake_file_for_apache_404.php not found"ErrorDocument 404 "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN\"><html><head><title>404 Not Found</title></head><body><h1>Not Found</h1><p>The requested URL <script type=\"text/javascript\">document.write(document.location.pathname);</script> was not found on this server.</p></body></html>"ErrorDocument 500 "Server in update. Please comme back later."