Htaccess RewriteCond Expr not executing-CodePudding

Per Amazon's Lightsail Troubleshooting I'm trying to update my htaccess to ignore a specific file during the HTTPS redirecting. However, it doesn't seem to be ignoring it.

What I want to happen is, if the user visits http://example.com/health-checker.html they aren't redirected to the HTTPs version. However, if they visit anything else they are redirected to the HTTPs version.

When I use the below code, they are still directed to the HTTPS version. To test if it was a browser caching issue, I used a different file name and still same problem.

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com [NC]
RewriteCond expr "! %{REQUEST_URI} -strmatch '*health-checker.html'"
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R=301,L]

Please note that I'm hard coding my domain name intentionally due to dealing with multiple domain names.

Your assistance is appreciated

CodePudding user response：

You don't really need expr here, you can just use regular RewriteCond with negation like this:

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !/health-checker\.html [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L,NE]