Controlling access by folder

[ChickPea Profile]

I have a situation where there are two virtual directories that point to the same physical path (can't be changed, it's to do with the way the underlying code platform works).

There are a bunch of "pages" that are actually active functions gated via ASP.

On this site, there are two "gateways" - the virtual directories.

One is /mqh and the other is /mqha - the latter being the admin back-end.

What I want to achieve is that if someone tries to "mix" the function sets, they'll get a "forbidden" status.

E.g it's OK to do /mqh/search.html ...
it's OK to do /mqha/a-sections.html...

but NOT /mqh/a-sections.html

Is the best way just to have a rule that says:

RewriteRule ^mqh/a-.*

Or should I use a LocationMatch?

[HeliconAndrew]

Hi,

Do you mean in terms of performance? Or what?