Apache config for all Location except specific URI

Question

I need to apply some configuration for a Location Directive.

These configurations must be applied for all location, except some URIs (e.g. I don't wanna change configs for /products, so bellow configuration must be applied for all locations, except /products )

<Location />
 # desired configurations
</Location>

Answer 1

This can be done in several ways:

1. Using regex

Use regex in Location Directive to match all URIs, except your pattern

e.g.:

<Location ~ "^((?!/product).)*$">
# desired configurations
</Location>

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2. Using < If> directive

e.g.: use If inside your directory:

<If "%{Request_URI} != '.*/product.*'">

or

<If "%{Request_URI} != '^((?!/product).)*$'">

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3. By setting variables and using If and IfDefine

Set a variable at start of configurations, and then use directive

SetEnvIf Request_URI ".*/product.*" isProd=1
...
<IfDefine isProd>
...

or you can use expr in If directive for comparing strings and variables.

4. By using another <Location>

It's possible to change an earlier <Location> section by overriding it after. For example, this will enforce authentication on everything but /.well-known/, a common pattern to get TLS certificates from Let's Encrypt:

        <Location />
                AuthType Basic
                AuthName "Restricted Content"
                AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/htpasswd
                Require valid-user
        </Location>
        <Location /.well-known/>
                Require all granted
        </Location>

This will ask users for passwords in all of /* except for /.well-known/* which will not require a password.

See the upstream documentation on configuration sections for more information on this.

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