only access with url which I write on htaccess prevent accessing real url

Question

I have folder admin
And I have changed url from admin to admin-cdn with below rule

RewriteRule ^admin-cdn/?(.*)$ admin/$1 [L]

Now I can access admin folder's files with both www.domain.com/admin/ and www.domain.com/admin-cdn/ url

I want show 404 error when user what to access with www.domain.com/admin path

How can do this in .htaccess file

Answer 1

You can do it like this:

RewriteEngine On

# if /admin/ is entered as URL then send 404
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/admin[?/\s] [NC]
RewriteRule ^ - [L,R=404]

# internal rewrite from /admin-cdn/ to /admin/
RewriteRule ^admin-cdn(/.*)?$ admin$1 [L,NC]