The pertinent part of my .htaccess looks like this:
Options -Indexes
<FilesMatch include>
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</FilesMatch>
RedirectMatch 404 ^/include(/.*)$
And it's generating the following responses:
I can tell by looking at my pattern that problem is likely in the (/.*) part but everything I have tried gives me the same results; instead of consistently getting 404 I get a 404 for the one case and 403 for everything else. What is wrong with the expression I'm using? Alternatively since I have to do this for a few directories is there a blanket approach that would allow me to convert all 403 responses to 404?
UPDATE: I've found that by removing the FileMatch I get better results, so my .htaccess now looks like this:
Options -Indexes
RedirectMatch 404 ^/include(/.*)?$ # Added dlamblin's first suggestion
And generates the following responses:
UPDATE: Interestingly enough I have discovered that the following produces different output:
RedirectMatch 404 ^/include(/?|/.*)$
RedirectMatch 404 ^/template(/?|/.*)$
The template pattern works on all cases however include is still generating 403 for all files in include (e.g. /include/config.inc) Could this be an issue with the directory name and not a problem with the .htaccess file itself?
UPDATE: The following in my .htaccess was conflicting with redirect when accessing /include/config.inc.
<FilesMatch config>
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</FilesMatch>
I can understand why the /include isn't caught by your RedirectMatch, you aren't making the end '/' optional, however the /include/config.inc part is a bit on the puzzling side.
Here is what I got to work on Apache 2.2:
<FilesMatch /include(/?|/.*)>
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</FilesMatch>
RedirectMatch 404 ^/include(/?|/.*)$
This handles these cases:
/include 404
/include/ 404
/include/config.inc 404
I had to change the FilesMatch part in order for the /include part to work properly.
EDIT:
The match line also works without the <FilesMatch> section in .htaccess and gives the expected results.