OT: Help with LocationMatch rule

[Christian Gilmore <Ch...@tivoli.com>]

This post is off topic. I apologize in advance, but I'm hoping someone out
there can answer this question easily for me. I want to put an
authentication rule on an entire site save for two subdirectories. How can
I do so?

As LocationMatch doesn't have an operator for "all things not matched by
this regular expression" and one apparently can't ignore a parent
directory's authentication rules if the child wants no authentication
whatsoever, I can't come up with the right solution.

The closest I've come is:

<LocationMatch "^/($|[^(cfincludes|includes)])">

But this doesn't work as the brackets remove any sense of string, reducing
my match to the set of words that are not completely within the jumbled
letters inside the brackets.

Regards,
Christian

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Christian Gilmore
Infrastructure & Tools Team Lead
Web & Multimedia Development
Tivoli Systems, Inc.