Common .htaccess rules for OpenLiteSpeed

Introduction

 OpenLiteSpeed is a web server that is known for its high performance and low resource usage. One of the features that it supports is the use of .htaccess files, which allow you to make configuration changes to your server without modifying the main configuration files. However, unlike Apache servers, OpenLiteSpeed does not support all of the modules that are available in Apache. One of the modules that it does support is the Rewrite module. In this blog post, we will discuss how to use the Rewrite module in OpenLiteSpeed across different examples. 

1) Blocking Access to a Specific File 

2) Blocking Access to a Specific Folder 

3) Redirecting from a Non-Existing Page to Another Page 

4) Reverse Proxy setup for nodejs like applications

5) Redirecting subdirectory/page to external domain

 


1) Blocking Access to a Specific File 

 If you want to block access to a specific file, such as the xmlrpc.php file, you can use the Rewrite module in OpenLiteSpeed to do this. To do this, you will need to add the following code to your .htaccess file.

RewriteRule xmlpc.php$ - [F,L]

This code tells OpenLiteSpeed to use the Rewrite module to match any requests for the xmlrpc.php file, and to return a 403 Forbidden error for those requests. 

2) Blocking Access to a Specific Folder 

 Another way to use the Rewrite module in OpenLiteSpeed is to block access to a specific folder. To do this, you can add the following code to the .htaccess file inside each folder that you want to block access to

RewriteRule .* - [F]

This code tells OpenLiteSpeed to use the Rewrite module to match any requests for files or folders within the current folder, and to return a 403 Forbidden error for those requests. 

 3) Redirecting from a Non-Existing Page to Another Page 

 Finally, you can use the Rewrite module in OpenLiteSpeed to redirect users who request a non-existing page to another page. For example, if you want to redirect users who request the deleted test page to the welcome page, you can add the following code to your .htaccess file:

RewriteRule ^/?test/(.*) /welcome [R=301,L]

This code tells OpenLiteSpeed to use the Rewrite module to match any requests for pages that match the pattern "test/*", and to redirect those requests to the "/welcome" page with a HTTP status code 301.

4) Reverse proxy setup for nodejs like application

You can use following code to transfer your traffic from 80 or 443 to your custom running port.

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://WEBAPP_NAME/$1 [P]

Here, you need to replace your web application name with WEBAPP_NAME. This is more for the RunCloud side users and Openlitespeed users in other panel won't require this step.

5) Redirect subdirectory/page to another domain

You can use following code for redirecting subdirectory or page to a external domain hosted outside your server.

RewriteRule ^/?test/$ https://google.com/? [R=301,L]

Here when a request comes to yourdomain.com/test it will redirect to google.com. 

If you are looking for ways to restrict based on IP etc then you can refer our blog here : How to restrict access to wp-admin or wp-login and allow specific IP (linuxtutorialz.co.uk)

I really hope this helps on your journey and we will make sure to update the post with new scenarios.