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Using Regex for Require Statemens in htacces – Apache

I have a directory (path/to/directory/) in which there is a .htacces blocking access using Require valid-user to require an authentication.
Now my task is to allow access to a subdirectory(path/to/director/foobar) and anything that might be in that subdirectory.
I do know how to grant access to a specific file by matching the request with the file path.
However, I do not know how the structure will look inside the directory.

I was wondering if it may be possible to check with a regular expression for the name of my directory?
so I considered

<RequireANY>
  #Allow subdirectory
  Require %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*?(bfoobarb)[^$]*)$

  #fallback
  Require valid-user
</RequireANY>

The regex checks out in https://regex101.com/ to match any URI, with foobar in it. Sadly the condition does not work like that. Did I miss something important as I am fairly unfamiliar with .htacces.? Thanks in advance

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    I found this solution to to exactly what I needed. I found it in an Installation Guide for Shopware 6 https://docs.shopware.com/de/shopware-6-de/erste-schritte/shopware-6-installieren

    AuthType Basic
AuthName "Please login."
AuthUserFile /path/to/.htpasswd

<RequireAny>
    Require expr %{THE_REQUEST} =~ m#.*?s+/foobar.*?#
    Require valid-user
</RequireAny>

  2. 0

    You may use this block with <if> expression:

    <If "%{REQUEST_URI} =~ m#^/path/to/directory/(?!foobar/)#">
  <RequireANY>
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Secret Area"
    AuthUserFile /full/path/of/passwords/file
    Require valid-user
  </RequireANY>
</If>

    Negative lookahead regex pattern ^/path/to/directory/(?!foobar/) will match /path/to/directory/* except when foobar/ comes directly after it.

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