mod-rewrite for URLs with extra characters after second slash

Question

How to return 404 error for all URL with extra characters after second / by htaccess.

e.g1:

http://www.example.com/blah-blah/ NOT Redirect (no extra characters after 2th /)

e.g2:

http://www.example.com/blah-blah/blah-blah Redirect to 404

e.g3:

http://www.example.com/blah-blah/blah-blah/ Redirect to 404

e.g4:

http://www.example.com/blah-blah/blah-blah/blah-blah Redirect to 404

e.g5:

http://www.example.com/blah-blah/blah-blah/blah-blah/ Redirect to 404

I tried this but not works with e.g3 & e.g5 (URLs ending with slash):

ErrorDocument 404 /404
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/.+ - [R=404,L]

Rebangm · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-22T06:53:09.190

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in order to redirect request only if there is some characters after second slash, you need to this rewrite rule

ErrorDocument 404 /404
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule .*/.+ - [R=404,L]

PS : when you're using a dash after regexp, it says to pass matches as it to filesystem.

EDIT : this pattern /.*/.+ matches with next example, but I forgot RewriteBase directive, so you need to remove first slash in pattern (I edit RewriteRule before)

/blah-blah/ => Not match
/blah-blah/blah-blah => Match
/blah-blah/blah-blah/ => Match
/blah-blah/blah-blah/blah-blah/ => Match

PS : You can use this tools, to check if your Rewrite works rewrite-rule-tester

edited Jul 22 '16 at 06:53

answered Jul 21 '16 at 19:40

Rebangm

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I fixed pattern, this should work now, like I said in my edit, I forgot RewriteBase directives in my test. – Rebangm Jul 22 '16 at 06:57
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It's weird, Do you have test to rewrite rule tester ? Do you have another RewriteRule to catch /blah-blah/ ? – Rebangm Jul 22 '16 at 09:43
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Ok, can you post your entire apache conf ? – Rebangm Jul 22 '16 at 14:16
Sorry my bad, i replaced your code on top of my rules and it works now – Jul 22 '16 at 16:46

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