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Unsubscribed User
85 Points

How can you redirect to 404.php from a 403?

Im trying to figure out how to create a htaccess file that is limited to certain IPs that can log into the wp-admin folder. If the IP is not among the list I would like the 403 forbidden to redirect to the 404.php file. However, how do you do this in the htaccess folder?

I did try to create a .htaccess file in the wp-admin directory as:

AuthUserFile /dev/null AuthGroupFile /dev/null AuthName "WordPress Admin Access Control" AuthType Basic <LIMIT GET> order deny,allow deny from all

whitelist Syed's IP address

allow from xx.xx.xx.xxx

whitelist David's IP address

allow from xx.xx.xx.xxx

whitelist Amanda's IP address

allow from xx.xx.xx.xxx

whitelist Muhammad's IP address

allow from xx.xx.xx.xxx

whitelist Work IP address

allow from xx.xx.xx.xxx </LIMIT>

RewriteEngine on ErrorDocument 403 /sitename/404.php

but I get an error message of "This webpage has a redirect loop". I did try to search on StackOverflow and the closes I was able to find was http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15818694/htaccess-not-redirecting-to-404-php-instead-shows-page-name but that didn't cover how to use it with WordPress.

1 Answer

Wayne Priestley
Wayne Priestley
19,579 Points
Wayne Priestley
Wayne Priestley
19,579 Points

Hi Matthew,

Rather than try to explain, I can point you to a htaccess tutorial site that I learned from, it's not a huge long winded really detailed tutorial, but it worked for what I needed and I think it might be just what your looking for, or at least a good start.

Tutorial 2 May help you out I think.

htaccess tutorial

I hope this helps, let me know how it goes.

Wayne

Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
85 Points

thanks for that.