Apache – How to Have A Conditional .htaccess Block

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This is an Apache question you've probably come across before. I want to have one source package that I can deploy to my workstation, my staging server, and my production server, but for it to load different .htaccess settings based on what the URL was.

Note that I was using a kludge with an IfModule call, but that won't work with our new production server because it shares all the same modules as my staging server.

Note I need to bundle SetEnv with these rewrites. Currently if you use RewriteCond, it only ties to the following RewriteRule, but not the SetEnv underneath.

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Instead of using SetEnv, use the environment variable setting capabilities of RewriteRule itself:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =foo.com
RewriteRule ^ - [E=VARNAME:foo]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =bar.com
RewriteRule ^ - [E=VARNAME:bar]

Although I prefer doing this sort of thing by passing flags to the httpd process at startup and looking for them using IfDefine blocks.

<IfDefine FOO>
SetEnv VARNAME foo
</IfDefine>

<IfDefine BAR>
SetEnv VARNAME bar
</IfDefine>

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Apache – htaccess deny from all

You cannot use the Directory directive in .htaccess. However if you create a .htaccess file in the /system directory and place the following in it, you will get the same result

#place this in /system/.htaccess as you had before
deny from all

Apache – disable the access of a directory but not the child directory with .htaccess

You have to use two .htaccess file, or two Directory section in your main server config (the first solution is easier if your server permits .htaccess files).

Put in your root a .htaccess with content like this:

Allow from none
Deny from all

And put one in your public_html folder with content:

Allow from all

This way nothing will be accessible in your root, but your public_html overrides this, and in that, everything will be accessible.

Edit:

What you want can be accomplished by putting this .htacces in your root:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/public_html/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public_html/$1

and putting your original one in public_html and make modifications to that to reflect that it is now in the public_html folder. This configuration that I posted is responsible to skip the root directory, and pretend like the public_html would be the root.

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Apache – disable the access of a directory but not the child directory with .htaccess

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