Redirect user if URL contains a specific keyword with htaccess

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I need help with setting up a rule inside .htaccess that does the following:

Whenever the requested URL contains keyword love then redirect the user to another URL or maybe show a 404 page.

Clarifying a bit more: If someone tries to access this URL –> www.example.com/love or www.example.com/?love or any URL that contains the word love should be redirected to a 404 page.

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You need to deal with matching something in the path and matching something in the query string separately, since Apache does not provide a variable containing both. The first RewriteRule here matches "love" in the path, and the second rule limited by the RewriteCond matches "love" in the query string.

RewriteRule .*love.* - [R=404]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} .*love.*
RewriteRule .* - [R=404]

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You could investigate the RewriteCond directive for conditionally applying the RewriteRule. However this shouldn't be strictly necessary if your RewriteRule explicitly matches the beginning and end of the expected URL to redirect e.g.


RewriteRule ^/$ /app/index.php [L]

Note that the redirect can be internal or external. If you explicitly provide the [R] flag to your RewriteRule then the browser will be informed of the new URL to fetch. Otherwise Apache will attempt to fetch the rewritten rule internally without informing the browser of the actual URL fetched.

Lastly, you can use mod_rewrite directives (RewriteEngine, RewriteCond, RewriteRule) in your .htaccess file.

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You don't need that RewriteBase in there, try this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/gateway\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} ^127\.0\.0\.1
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.website.com/gateway.php?req=%{REQUEST_URI} [R=302,L]

First you explicitly say that if gateway.php is requested, stop. Then you say if it's from localhost just do the URL, ELSE do the redirect. You may be subject to some sort of internal redirect mechanism, you might have to set RewriteLog and RewriteLogLevel up right quick to debug the actions Apache is taking.

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