<Location> and <FileMatch> Rewrite Rules
Rewrite rules located inside <Location>
or <FileMatch>
tags are not supported by LiteSpeed Web Server.
Let's say you want to block a URL /rejectthisurl
for all virtual hosts on a cPanel server. To achieve this, you add an include file for all cPanel virtual hosts at /etc/apache2/conf.d/userdata/rejectthisurl.conf
, and use a <Location> directive, like so:
<Location /rejectthisurl> RewriteEngine on RewriteRule .* - [F] </Location>
This works for Apache (returning 403
as expected), but not for LSWS (returning 404
instead of 403
).
Since LSWS doesn't support rewrite rules inside of <Location>
or <FileMatch>
, you need another way.
Simply use an appropriate rewrite rule to achieve the same goal. For the above example, you can add the following to /etc/apache2/conf.d/userdata/rejectthisurl.conf
:
RewriteRule ^/rejectthisurl - [F]