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Asked: 2026-06-10T18:13:46+00:00

How can I make mod_rewrite redirect to a certain page or probably just throw

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How can I make mod_rewrite redirect to a certain page or probably just throw 404 if no other rules have been satisfied? Here’s what I have in my .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^\. / [F,QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^3rdparty(/.*)$ / [F,QSA,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^((images|upload)/.+|style.css)$ $1 [L]

RewriteRule ^$ special [QSA]
RewriteRule ^(special|ready|building|feedback)/?$ $1.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(ready|building)/(\d+)/?$ show_property.php?type=$1&property_id=$2 [QSA,L]

RewriteRule . error.php?code=404 [QSA,L]

This is supposed, among other things, to send user to error.php if he tries to access anything that was not explicitly specified here (by the way, what is the proper way to throw 404?). However, instead it sends user from every page to error.php. If I remove the last rule, everything else works.

What am I doing wrong?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The problem here is that after the mod_rewrite finishes rewriting the URL, it is resubmitted to the mod_rewrite for another pass. So, the [L] flag only makes the rule last for the current pass. As much better explained in this question, mod_rewrite starting from Apache version 2.3.9, now supports another flag – [END], that makes the current mod_rewrite pass the last one. For Apache 2.2 a number of solutions are offered, but since one of them was a bit clumsy and another didn’t work, my current solution is to add another two rules that allow a specific set of files to be accessed while sending 404 for everything else:

    RewriteRule ^((images|upload)/.+|style.css|(special|ready|building|feedback|property).php)$ - [QSA,L]
RewriteRule .* - [QSA,L,R=404]
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