Custom 403 Error Page in Root Directory

Question

I'm blocking a few IP addresses using the htaccess technique and this works well for all my pages except for the site/document root where the Fedora Core Test Page is displayed instead.

I'm aware that the test page is shown when no document in the root directory is found, thus I have created multiple documents and set the directory index, where index.php is my regular document root file.

NB I don't have access to /etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf

Below is the related htaccess code:

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html 403.php

ErrorDocument 403 /403.php

order allow,deny
deny from 5.39.218
deny from 146.0.74
deny from 5.39.219
deny from 176.102.38
allow from all

<FilesMatch "(403.php|hero.jpg|index.html)$">
 order allow,deny
 allow from all
</FilesMatch>

Is there a way of displaying my custom 403 page for the website root?

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

Try this code:

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html 403.php

ErrorDocument 403 /403.php

order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from 5.39.218
deny from 146.0.74
deny from 5.39.219
deny from 176.102.38
Satisfy    any

<FilesMatch "^(|403\.php|hero\.jpg)$">
 order allow,deny
 allow from all
</FilesMatch>

Answer 2

People looking for a complete solution:

• Must Ass FilesMatch "^.*$" line to ip's to block
• Add ^ to the front of the FilesMatch for the allowed files

Finished Code:

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html 403.php

ErrorDocument 403 /403.php

<FilesMatch "^.*$">
  order allow,deny
  allow from all
  deny from 5.39.218
  deny from 146.0.74
  deny from 5.39.219
  deny from 176.102.38
</FilesMatch>

<FilesMatch "^(|403\.php|hero\.jpg)$">
  order allow,deny
  allow from all
</FilesMatch>

Answer 3

Try to disable the default Apache CentOS welcome page:

#
# This configuration file enables the default "Welcome"
# page if there is no default index page present for
# the root URL.  To disable the Welcome page, comment
# out all the lines below.
#
<LocationMatch "^/+$">
    Options -Indexes
    ErrorDocument 403 /error/noindex.html
</LocationMatch>

Edit file /etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf and comment everything. Simply removing the welcome.conf file (or renaming it as .conf.disabled for example) should do the trick too.

Then, reload apache configuration ( service httpd restart ) and things should work as expected.