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Asked: 2026-06-12T05:06:33+00:00

I need to protect a single logical url in a Joomla CMS with htaccess.

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I need to protect a “single logical” url in a Joomla CMS with htaccess. I found here .htaccess code to protect a single URL?

this solution, which works great for a specific url:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/index\.php$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^option=com_content&task=view&id=76$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /secure.htm

However, how can I make sure that the url parts can’t be swapped around or amended, therefore circumventing the secure access. For example I don’t want to allow access to 

option=com_content&task=view&id=76&dummy=1 
option=com_content&id=76&task=view

either.

I have tried this, which doesn’t seem to work:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/index\.php$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} option=com_content
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} task=view
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} id=76
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /secure.htm
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  1. Editorial Team

    Your rules work fine for me when I go to any of these URLs:

    • http://localhost/index.php?blah=blah&option=com_content&task=view&id=76
    • http://localhost/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=76&dummy=1
    • http://localhost/index.php?option=com_content&id=76&task=view

    I get served the content at /secure.htm

    However, you could add sound boundaries to your query string rules:

    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|&)option=com_content(&|$)
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|&)task=view(&|$)
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|&)id=76(&|$)

    So that you don’t end up matching something like id=761

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