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I would like my Apache VirtualHost to respond with the same content, no matter the URL requested. I know it is possible with an additional file containing the static response (https://askubuntu.com/a/485017/600828).

However, my response content is very short and simple, and I would like to know if it is possible to include it in the Apache site config file directly (so that I have only one file to deploy & maintain instead of 2).

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  • nginx can do this very easily with return, i.e.: return 200 "Hi there"; but I can't find anything relevant for Apache. Commented Feb 25, 2019 at 17:18
  • Indeed @MichaelHampton. The reason I want to do it with Apache is that I am using Apache as a reverse proxy to multiple apps, so if I use anything else it would be behind Apache anyway. Commented Feb 25, 2019 at 20:32

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You can define the text for 404 and other error conditions in the main Apache httpd.conf with the ErrorDocument directive https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/custom-error.html

When your documentRoot is empty and you don’t permit directory listings requests for your bare domain should trigger an 403 error and all other URLs will trigger a 404 so with the following (ugly) solution you get what you want

<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName www.example.com DocumentRoot /path/to/empty/dir ErrorDocument 404 "some text" ErrorDocument 403 "some text" .,. </VirtualHost >

Please note that your some text needs to be long enough to prevent certain browsers from displaying their own friendly error messages

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    Thank you for your suggestion. It is an interesting workaround, but I'd rather have a success code returned... Upvoted anyway. Commented Feb 25, 2019 at 20:34

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