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Reputation: 1

Apache: returning error based on existence of a file named in a query string

I have a page which is returned by https://myserver.com/login?z=XXXXXX

XXXXXX is a 6-character string such as ABC123.

I would like Apache to return an 403: Forbidden error response if file %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/z/XXXXXX doesn't exist.

I have tried several approaches such as:

<If "%{QUERY_STRING} =~ /z=(......)/">
    RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/z/$1 !-f
    RewriteRule . - [F,END]
</If>

without success. I suspect that the above doesn't work because the $1 reference in the second line is not picking up the bracketed expression in the first line.

It returns a Forbidden error if the query string matches /z=(......)/ regardless of whether {DOCUMENT_ROOT}/z/$1 exists - ie it is saying that %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/z/$1 doesn't exist, even if the file implied by the query string does exist.

The If is working: it only returns Forbidden if the query string matches z=(......)

So how can I do this?

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