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how to redirect anyone, accessing a specific folder to receive 404 error with htaccess? – Apache

I am trying to redirect people, that try to access a specific folder on web to receive 404
Example: if anyone wants to access www.mysite/myfolder/ I wish that person to receive 404 error
What I have tried by now:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/node/$
RewriteRule .* - [F]
RedirectMatch 301 www.yoursite/node/


RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^//node/123 /node/999 /node/128173/(.*)$ /pages/errors/404.php$1 [R=301,L]

None of those really worked-received 500 error
Also tried to simply redirect everything to a non-existent site, like this:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
Redirect 301 /node/*.*   http://www.your imaginary site/to-new-url

Yet, still received 500
Can anyone please help?

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  1. Chosen as BEST ANSWER
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    Hi all and thank you for answering my 500 error was apparently due to not specifying https in the redirect form After that everything worked


  2. 0

    Why not deny access to /node/ folder?

    <Directory /node/>
  Deny from all
</Directory>

    or modify your rewrites in .htaccess to:

    RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^node/ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) /pages/errors/404.php [R=301,L]

    But it’s not good practice, 404 page should return HTTP 404 status not HTTP 301 as redirect.

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