How to tell apache to LocationMatch opposite of this?

Question

I have the following in my apache conf:

  <LocationMatch "^/assets/.*$">

How can I put in a directive that is the opposite of this?

I tried <LocationMatch "!^/assets/.*$"> but it didn't work :(

Answer 1

With Apache 2.2 (not sure about previous versions), you can use a regular expression with a negative lookahead to match all root location URL-path directories other than /assets like so:

<LocationMatch "^(?!/assets)/[^/]+">
    ...
</LocationMatch>

Note that this does not include the root URL-path / itself.