How do I throw a 404 for a specific page with .HTACCESS?

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Hi, for specific reasons I won’t go into I want “https://domain.com/” to throw a 404 error.
So only https in combination with the bare domain name as I’ve written it there.
E.g. “https://domain.com/page.php” should work fine.

How would I write this in .htaccess? (I did research it but couldn’t find anything that made this clear to me)

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Does it have to be 404 not found, or would 403 forbidden be okay as well?

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It has to be a 404

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Apache can’t do that, you should do that from the file that is called.

Or maybe you can redirect the location to some other location that is allowed?

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Rémon,

Sorry, mate, you can specify an R=404 when required. Select the file and send it to the 404 handler with an R=404 and that should do it for him.

Regards,

DK

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But where do you send it to? You can’t send it to the requested location, that would be loopy …

In the Apache docs it does say the code has to be in the range 300-400 btw

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