Adding exceptions to HTACCESS rewrites for https

[blmg2009]

Hi there, 
 
I'm fairly new to sever management and apache. I'm having issues with curl requests on my website and i'm been told to: 
 

If your store redirects all traffic to a secure connection (using https) then you will need to add an exclude rule to ensure that the OpenBay Pro urls can still use http.
OpenBay Pro urls that need to be http are:
index.php?route=ebay/openbay/*
The * means anything after is included - there is several methods/urls within this file.

However even with searching online I can see how to add the exceptions for pages ending in certain file types and not for the exception mentioned above.

Here is my HTACCESS FILE:

# STARTNITRO
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE:%{HTTP:If-Modified-Since}]
ExpiresActive On


#CSS JS XML TXT - 1 WEEK
<FilesMatch "\.(xml|txt|css|js)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=604800, public"
ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 week"
</FilesMatch>


#JPG JPEG PNG GIF SWF SVG - 1 MONTH
<FilesMatch "\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|swf|svg|JPG|JPEG|PNG|GIF|SWF|SVG)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2678400, public"
ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 month"
Header set Last-Modified "Wed, 05 Jun 2009 06:40:46 GMT"
</FilesMatch>


#OTF WOFF TTF ICO PDF FLV - 1 MONTH
<FilesMatch "\.(otf|ico|pdf|flv|woff|ttf)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2678400, public"
ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 month"
</FilesMatch>
# ENDNITRO
# STARTCOMPRESSNITRO
RewriteEngine On


RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(\/?((catalog)|(assets)).+)\.css$ assets/style.php?l=4&p=$1&c=604800 [NC,L]


RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(\/?((catalog)|(assets)).+)\.js$ assets/script.php?l=4&p=$1&c=604800 [NC,L]
AddType image/svg+xml .svg
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml
# ENDCOMPRESSNITRO


RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]


# SEO URL Settings
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^sitemap.xml$ index.php?route=feed/google_sitemap [L]
RewriteRule ^googlebase.xml$ index.php?route=feed/google_base [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*\.(ico|gif|jpg|jpeg|png|js|css)
RewriteRule ^([^?]*) index.php?_route_=$1 [L,QSA]

I would really appreciate if someone could walk me through the code to modified to an the above exceptions.  

 

I believe it would be the following code I would need to edit: 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]

But like I mentioned i'm not entirely sure. 

 

 

 

[requinix]

Yes, that's the code. Currently it says "if not using HTTPS then redirect to the https:// version of the page". That needs to be modified to say

If not using HTTPS and the page does not match that one OpenBay pattern then redirect to the https:// version of the page.

To get that new condition you can use

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php?route=ebay/openbay/

(which assumes that this site is not located in a subdirectory underneath the domain) added next to the existing RewriteCond.