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Sorry! I know it.
I've just notived recently that fail2ban does not ban RewriteRule [F] requests.

And yes, this is a feature request.
I'd like to have "client denied by server configuration:" - like in mod_authz_host - written to the error log.

I think that this is a one-liner in the source code.
Could you please add this error message.
Thank you!

Using Apache 2.4 you can add custom logging using mod_log_debug.
E.g. set your own env var in the RewriteRule as a side effect and then use mod_log_debug to log your chosen message when the env var is set.

This feature doesn't exist for 2.2 though.

I'm not judging on whether a builtin log statement makes sense w.r.t. consistency with AAA modules.

Regards,

Rainer

Thank you for the mod_log_debug suggestion!

I think enabling another module is the last resort.

Is it function call needed to write in the error log?
I think is should be in "case 'F':" in mod_rewrite.c.

ap_log_rerror(APLOG_MARK, APLOG_ERR, APR_SUCCESS, r, APLOGNO(01630)
              "client denied by server configuration: %s%s",
              r->filename ? "" : "uri ",
              r->filename ? r->filename : r->uri);