htaccess rewrite conflict with wordpress rules and ssl

Question

this one has me buggered- I have the below htaccess rule to redirect ssl to non-ssl pages. this works fine, except I'd like to exclude certain wordpress requests from this rule- for example, https://mysite.com/info/. I've tried the following:

#rewrite all ssl pages to non-ssl for everything that doesn't have /info/ in the request uri 
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/info/
RewriteRule (.*) http://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,QSA,L]

#wordpress
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

the result is that https://mysite.com/info/ redirects to http://mysite.com/ instead. If I disable the wordpress rewrite rules, the preceding rules work fine. Can anyone suggest the proper way to target pretty urls in a rewrite condition?

Answer 1

Edit your existing code to exclude the index.php from redirecting like this:

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/info/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php$
RewriteRule (.*) http://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,QSA,L]

For an explanation, check the answer to this question at Stackoverflow: Issue with .htaccess redirecting all pages to HTTPS except one .