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Latest post by sandvalley2019 on Thursday, 12 June 2025 07:00 CDT
Hi there,
I can not get Bad Words Filtering to work.
I have enabled "Bad Word filter" in "Web Application Firewall / Configure WAF / Request filtering", and I have added three words: "evenementenperdag", "evenementenperweek" and "evenementenperjaar"
But still the url https://leroytuin.nl/agenda/geweest/evenementenperweek/2022/6/6/14 is available, where I expected a 404 status.
Kind regards,
Peter
I understand what you are trying to do. You chose the wrong tool to do it.
The Anti-spam Bad Words feature will block a request if any request parameter contains a forbidden word. That part you understand. What you didn't fully understand is that what you see in the URL and what Joomla ends up with as the request parameter is not necessarily the same thing because Joomla parses SEF URLs into request parameters. Bad Words will act on the parsed request parameters, not the SEF URL path, which do not contain the word you are trying to block.
What you are trying to do is best handled with custom .htaccess code. Add the following to your .htaccess Maker "Custom .htaccess rules at the top of the file":
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /(evenementenperdag|evenementenperweek|evenementenperjaar)/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ - [F,L]
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Thanks, I added the line as suggested, and when I check the .htacces file the lines are added at the end of the file, but still the url is accessible.
Regards,
Peter
My mistake: I added the line "at the end of the htacces file". When placed on top, it works fine
Thanks,
Peter
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