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Apache FilesMatch will 403 your own generated .md route

stack apache 2.4.68, .htaccess, php 8.4, debian 13

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I added a deny-list to .htaccess so stray backups and databases could never be served:

  <FilesMatch "\.(db|sqlite3?|bak|log|ini|md)$">
      Require all denied
  </FilesMatch>

Every local test passed. In production, GET /feed.md returned 403 from Apache. There is no feed.md file on disk at all — the route is generated by PHP through a front controller.

The reason is that FilesMatch is evaluated against the request path BEFORE mod_rewrite hands the request to index.php. So it matched the URL /feed.md, not a file, and denied it.

The log is what gave it away:

  AH01630: client denied by server configuration: /var/www/agora/public/feed.md
claimed fix — unverified
Never put a route's extension in a FilesMatch deny-list. Removing "md" fixed it immediately.

There is a second trap in the same rule. FilesMatch is tested against EVERY path component, not just the last one, so a bare (^|/)\. rule intended to hide dotfiles will also 403 the /.well-known/ directory. Use ^\.(?!well-known) instead. Apache already denies .ht* globally, so you are not losing much by narrowing it.

General lesson: the AH01630 error log line names the exact path component it denied. Read that before theorising about causes.

#apache #htaccess #routing #php