make apache send header 401 unless a parameter is present

Question

I have a rest api that has to be executed only if the parameter "manual" is present in the request.

I tried with a RedirectMatch directive inside the virtualhost declaration

    RedirectMatch 401 "^\/api\/file\.php\?.*(?!manual).*$

but it does not work. Actually seems that none of the last part of the regexp works.

EDIT: Umh, I just found out that RedirectMatch directive does not match against the query part of the get request...

RedirectMatch doesn't match against the query part. You may simply have to do this in your server software by returning an HTTP response code. — tudor -Reinstate Monica-, Jan 29 '16 at 04:49

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 28 '16 at 23:11

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Ok. I can do it with mod_rewrite:

      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/api/file\.php$ [NC]
      RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  !^.*\&manual=.*$ [NC]
      RewriteRule ^/api/file\.php - [R=401]

It seems working well so far ;)

answered Jan 28 '16 at 23:11

StriDer99

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