Web Development

Hello,

I have a situation where I am trying to use Apache's RedirectMatch directive to redirect all users to a HTTPS URL except a single (Linux) user accessing there own webspace. I have found a piece of regular expression code that negates the username:

Code:

 ^((?!andy).)*$

but when I try using it in the directive:

Code:

RedirectMatch ^((?!andy).)*$ https://www.example.com/

the URL:

Code:

http://www.example.com/~andy/

still gets redirected to the HTTPS URL:

Code:

https://www.example.com/

Also if I comment out the line:

Code:

# RedirectMatch ^((?!andy).)*$ https://www.example.com/

and restart Apache, and then try the URL:

Code:

http://www.example.com/andy

I get a 404 response, which is expected. But, if I try the URL:

Code:

http://www.example.com/~andy

The redirect is triggered and I am redirected to:

Code:

https://www.example.com/

and as I said, the redirect is commented out and I have restarted the server. How can this happen? So this is not just a regex thing, it seems Apache is redirecting without instruction!

I am not an expert in regular expressions (or Apache), so any help in getting this working would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Stephen