Make exception to whole-site RedirectMatch rule

We have this RedirectMatch rule to move clients on the SSL enabled site while maintaining the path they're trying to access:

Redirectmatch permanent (.*) https://www.foobar.com$1

and it is working perfectly. Now we would like to add an exception for /somepath that should not be redirected. How can I do that?

With mod_rewrite I would add a rewriterule saying "don't rewrite and stop matching", but there isn't such mechanism with redirect. Also, if I trivially reverse the regexp like !(/somepath|/someotherpath) it would no longer get the $1 parameter.

From serverfault Luke404

• Any reason you don't want to use mod_rewrite?

  You could mimic the functionality with this:

  RewriteCond  %{REQUEST_URI}  !^/(somepath|someotherpath)
  RewriteRule  (.*)                       $1                        [R=permanent]
  RewriteRule  http://%{SERVER_NAME}(.*)  https://www.foobar.com$1  [L]
  

  ---

  I hadn't realized Apache uses PCRE. Since it does, you can do this bit of voodoo to do what you want with mod_alias:

  RedirectMatch permanent ^/?((?!(thisisfoo|thisisbar)).*) https://www.foobar.com/$1
  

  where /thisisfoo and /thisisbar are exceptions to the redirect.

  From mark