CODEWITHSUNDEEP
phphtmlmediawikirestriction
user11744452
user11744452

Reputation:

Prevent creation of a webpage by URL in PHP

I have a MediaWiki 1.32.0 website. MediaWiki website directories contains the file LocalSettings.php in which one could write global custom PHP.

As a non PHP programmer I ask if there is some PHP command I could use to restrict access to a certain existing webpage, by that webpage's URL, so that any web request to create it('s HTML) would be denied, either resulting in some 404-like HTTP status code, or a redirection to homepage, as long as that command appears in LocalSettings.php?
I would prefer a PHP way instead an Apache PCRE directive in .htacess. Also, I should note that the URL is already blocked by robots.txt.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 77

Answers (1)

Emil
Emil

Reputation: 127

You can get the requested URL in PHP like this: 

$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

And deny access to a page like this:

$url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
if ($url == "/wiki/blocked_page") die('404 error here');

Or redirect to your home page like this:

$url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
if ($url == "/wiki/blocked_page") header('Location: /');

Note: request_url is everything after your domain name. If your URL is https://example.com/wiki/blocked_page request_url would return "/wiki/blocked_page".

Upvotes: 1

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