Dave Code's questions

I wanted to blacklist on the fly some IP address. I'm updating the main httpd.conf but i wanted to add some IPs on the fly, without using .htaccess (neither the heavy fail2ban). So, i creating a list of ip using Rewrite map. It's working well, except if i want to output the 403 error.

Here is the code that is working :

<VirtualHost x.x.x.x:80>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteMap hosts-deny "txt:/var/www/htdocs/.deny"
RewriteCond   "${hosts-deny:%{REMOTE_ADDR}|NOT-FOUND}" ^-$ [NC] 
RewriteRule   .* /var/www/htdocs/error.php [L]

but It would make more sense for me to have it that way, meaning generating the 403 error :

<VirtualHost x.x.x.x:80>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteMap hosts-deny "txt:/var/www/htdocs/.deny"
RewriteCond   "${hosts-deny:%{REMOTE_ADDR}|NOT-FOUND}" ^-$ [NC] 
RewriteRule   .* - [L,F]

but then it thought out the following error "You don't have permission to access /index.php on this server." Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."

but there is already a 403 error page that is working (located there /var/www/htdocs/error.php), i've tried to move the definition outside the section where it is working for the rest of the site, except for this new set up

ErrorDocument 403 /error.php

or

ErrorDocument 403 /var/www/htdocs/error.php

none are working, meaning, i still have the 500 internal server error

Any idea where i am wrong ?

Thanks