Help with rewrite rule 1

[J1mbo]

I have the following working rules in my httpd.conf for redirecting http to https based on the URI:

### Redirect port 80 to port 443 (ssl) for secure content
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^80$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*(password|phpmyadmin).*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$

https://myhost.com%{REQUEST_URI}

[L]

I can't get the inverse rule to work, which i want to use to move people from https to http for non-secure content:

### Redirect port 443 to port 80 for all NON password protected pages
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*(password|phpmyadmin).*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$

http://myhost.com%{REQUEST_URI}

[L]

Any assistance would be appreciated.

 

[Noway2]

It looks to me like the !^.*(password|phpmyadmin) condition may be the problem. Specifically, The !^ looks like it is saying that the condition does not begin with a start of line.

If I recall my regular expressions, I think the type of condition you are after is more of a [^(password|phpmyadmin)], where the [^ ] is an exclusionary condition. Someone who is better at regex should be able to give you the correct syntax, if I got it wrong.

 

[J1mbo]

Thanks for the reply.

I can't seem to find any good documentation on the use of "!" w/ mod_rewrite, but i thought it was correct from what i've seen in other examples. I'll look into this more closely though. The [^ ] works for negative character classes, but it doesn't work in this situation.

 

[feherke]

Hi

I can't seem to find any good documentation on the use of "!" w/ mod_rewrite

You can prefix the pattern string with a '[tt]![/tt]' character (exclamation mark) to specify a non-matching pattern.

In [tt]mod_rewrite[/tt] the [tt]![/tt] character can be used before a regular expression to negate it. This is, a string will be considered to have matched only if it does not match the rest of the expression.

I would say, your original code is correct and the error comes from somewhere else.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[J1mbo]

Thanks Feherke.