Forum Topic: Redirect match for repeated subdir

Forum: .htaccess Forum : Redirecting • Posted by Steve Jones • Updated:

Hi – a question from a true noob – I hope it’s not too stupid.

Let’s say I’m getting traffic that looks like this:

http://example.com/foo/dir1/foo/dir2/file.php

I want to know if /foo/ appears more than once in the request, and send them off to 403 land if that is the case.

Is that something I can do with RedirectMatch?

Regards,

Steve Jones

1 Reply to “Redirect match for repeated subdir”

Posted by Jeff Starr •

I think it’s possible, try something like this:

http://example.com/foo/?(.*)?/foo

This will catch multiple /foo/ requests when the first directory is /foo/, as well as anything like these:

http://example.com/foo/foo
http://example.com/foo/dir1/foo/
http://example.com/foo/dir1/dir2/foo/
http://example.com/foo/dir1/dir2/foo/dir3/

Test thoroughly, tune accordingly :)