How do I block access to a specific page using Apache (2.0)
mod_rewrite in an .htaccess file. I have the following already:

# Append "/home" to called section if not there.
RewriteRule ^(public|alumni|admin)/?$ /$1/home [R=permanent,L]
# Remove trailing slash from request.
RewriteRule ^(public|alumni|admin)/(.*)/$ /$1/$2 [R=permanent,L]
# Send to section's processing page.
RewriteRule ^(public|alumni|admin)/(.*)$ $1.php [L]

If I use this, IE returns "Page can not be displayed":

# Block direct access to processing pages.
RewriteRule ^(public|alumni|admin).php /$1/home [R=permanent,L]

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Request for Question Clarification by sycophant-ga on 31 Jul 2006 03:06 PDT

Hi, 

I am not clear on what you are asking?

The rule you provide is already blocking access? How do you want this
to be different?

What is the page/file you are trying to block? 
Under what conditions (if any) do you want it accessible?

Regards,
Sycophant

I've played with these rewrites and it looks the problem is inside this rule:

# Send to section's processing page.
RewriteRule ^(public|alumni|admin)/(.*)$ $1.php [L]

rewrites cycling till cycle limit reached and error happened. Somehow
[L] doesn't help. Try to make this rewrite rule more specific to avoid
cycling. And probably you should use '\.php' instead of '.php' in the
last rule.