I need to block all requests except the ones that have part of a custom header name OR come from IP 10.0.0.2, for that I think it can be solved by some .htaccess rules
Currently, the enabled clients will send a custom HTTP header like this production-platform-app-xxxxxx-1.0.3.7
So I need to block the request if both of the following conditions are met:
Condition 1: Custom HTTP header doesn't match production-platform-app (not the whole header name, just a substring of it, the whole header will be evaluated later in a redirect rule)
AND Conditon 2: Visitor IP is not 10.0.0.2 exactly
.htaccess file##
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Options -Indexes
## No directory listings
<IfModule mod_autoindex.c>
IndexIgnore *
</IfModule>
## Suppress mime type detection in browsers for unknown types
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header always set X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff"
</IfModule>
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#<IfModule mod_headers.c>
# Header always set Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy "same-origin"
# Header always set Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy "require-corp"
#</IfModule>
## Disable inline JavaScript when directly opening SVG files or embedding them with the object-tag
<FilesMatch "\.svg$">
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header always set Content-Security-Policy "script-src 'none'"
</IfModule>
</FilesMatch>
## These directives are only enabled if the Apache mod_rewrite module is enabled
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
## Begin - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits.
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RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode[^(]*\([^)]*\) [OR]
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RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|%3C)([^s]*s)+cript.*(>|%3E) [NC,OR]
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RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
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RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
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# If the requested path starts with /api, the file is not /api/index.php
# and the request has not already been internally rewritten to the
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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/api/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/api/index\.php
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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
# and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical folder
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# internally rewrite the request to the /api/index.php script
RewriteRule .* api/index.php [L]
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# If the requested path and file is not /index.php and the request
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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php
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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# internally rewrite the request to the index.php script
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]
#
## End - Joomla! core SEF Section.
</IfModule>
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<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_alias.c>
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# of the start page to the front controller explicitly so that the website
# and the generated links can still be used.
RedirectMatch 302 ^/$ /index.php/
# RedirectTemp cannot be used instead
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
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## then your server is already gzipping css and js files and you don't need this
## block enabled in your .htaccess
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
# Serve gzip compressed CSS files if they exist
# and the client accepts gzip.
RewriteCond "%{HTTP:Accept-encoding}" "gzip"
RewriteCond "%{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.gz" -s
RewriteRule "^(.*)\.css" "$1\.css\.gz" [QSA]
# Serve gzip compressed JS files if they exist
# and the client accepts gzip.
RewriteCond "%{HTTP:Accept-encoding}" "gzip"
RewriteCond "%{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.gz" -s
RewriteRule "^(.*)\.js" "$1\.js\.gz" [QSA]
# Serve correct content types, and prevent mod_deflate double compression.
RewriteRule "\.css\.gz$" "-" [T=text/css,E=no-gzip:1,E=no-brotli:1]
RewriteRule "\.js\.gz$" "-" [T=text/javascript,E=no-gzip:1,E=no-brotli:1]
<FilesMatch "(\.js\.gz|\.css\.gz)$">
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</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>
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Require all denied
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#<FilesMatch "(index|rantai|mercadopago30_ipn_notification).php$">
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## END Custom sec options
I need to block the request if both of the following conditions are met:
Condition 1: Custom HTTP header doesn't match
production-platform-app(not the whole header name, just a substring of it, the whole header will be evaluated later in a redirect rule)AND Conditon 2: Visitor IP is not
10.0.0.2exactly
In other words you only want to allow access when the visitor IP is 10.0.0.2 or a header name of the form production-platform-app<anything> is present.
Oridinarily, the HTTP header name is a fixed/known entity (with a variable value) and most directives assume this. To check for a variable header name you need a mechanism that effectively traverses the list of HTTP request headers. Fortunately, the SetEnvIf directive (mod_setenvif) allows you to search for header name(s) based on a regex.
For example:
# Set env var HEADER_IS_SET (to value 1) if a header name is present that
# starts with "production-platform-app" and contains any or no value
SetEnvIf ^production-platform-app ^ HEADER_IS_SET
# NB: You may need to check for "REDIRECT_HEADER_IS_SET" here instead...
<If "%{REMOTE_ADDR} != '10.0.0.2' && reqenv('HEADER_IS_SET') != '1'">
Require all denied
</If>
Note that due to the Joomla front-controller (Joomla! core SEF Section) in .htaccess you may need to check for the env var REDIRECT_HEADER_IS_SET instead in the <If> expression (only), despite having set HEADER_IS_SET in the earlier SetEnvIf directive. This is because of the looping nature of mod_rewrite in a .htaccess context (where env vars are renamed with a REDIRECT_ prefix during successive passes by the rewrite engine). Ordinarily, you would resolve this by using the END flag (instead of L) in the Joomla front-controller, but it may not be advisable to manually edit this section if Joomla itself maintains this section? (Using the END flag requires Apache 2.4+) The END flag prevents additional passes by the rewrite engine, whereas the L flag simply stops the current pass.
However, depending on what you are protecting (Joomla virtual URLs and/or physical assets) then changing to use REDIRECT_HEADER_IS_SET may not be sufficient, since this would still allow access to static assets. Changing the front-controller to use END (instead of L) would be required in this case.