Thanks for all your help.
I ended up using the RewriteRule recommended below by Rich Bowen along with an ErrorDocument (as per Nick Kew) to provide more details about the error.
300/400 series would have been more useful but client requirements don't always make sense. However, they are happy that a very simple config exercise in Apache was able to solve the problem.
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From: Rich Bowen <rbowen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Fri, December 4, 2009 6:25:39 PM
Subject: Re: mod_rewrite/rewriterule - forcing a HTTP 500 code on all access attempt?
On Dec 4, 2009, at 20:25 , Frank Z wrote:
> is there a way via RewriteRule to force all access to a certain URL to return with a HTTP 500
>
> e.g. i have a number 3 applications that are or will be obsoleted and is expected to return a 500 to all callers who try to access it.
>
> so when someone tries to access a deprecated URL such as http://myserver/myApp1 ; I would like to send back a 500 and preferably some textual information (nice to have).
>
> Will it be possible to do this via mod_rewrite?
You can use the R flag to return any valid HTTP status
RewriteRule ^/myApp1 - [R=500]
but, as Nick says, returning a 500 for it seems to be a lot less useful than a 404 or a 410 and an ErrorDocument.
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Rich Bowen
rbowen@xxxxxxxxxxx
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