Match specific urls but not including a php file

Question

I have the following sample urls

/alfa/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js /beta/wp-content/plugins/app/js/media.js?parameter=value /beta/wp-admin/network /beta/wp-content/themes/journal/data.php

I'm using the following regex to match all paths, excluding paramethers

^/(alfa|beta)((/wp-(content|admin|includes))([^?\s]*)).*

This works well, but how to change the regex to exclude any paths which include a .php ? So it needs to return first 3 paths but not the last.

@mickmackusa Perhap, [PHP - parse current URL](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5598480/php-parse-current-url), but I vote as too broad. — Wiktor Stribiżew, Mar 29 '18 at 21:01
Yeah. Too many different, correct ways to solve this one. @JoeS please show more effort and let us know how you go. — mickmackusa, Mar 29 '18 at 21:03
@Wiktor I'am not sure why you tagged this as php, as i'am using it along Nginx rewrite, so obliviously your link is useless. — Joe S, Mar 29 '18 at 22:01
@JoeS I've moved my comment to an answer. Please accept if that explains it for you. — chris85, Mar 30 '18 at 03:57

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 29 '18 at 22:02

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The solution i looked for is the following, thanks @chris85

.*\.php(*SKIP)(*FAIL)|^/(alfa|beta)((/wp-(content|admin|includes))([^?\s]*)).*

answered Mar 29 '18 at 22:02

Joe S

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 30 '18 at 03:56

You can use the PCRE verbs skip and fail to skip over matches of expressions. You can read more about them here, http://www.rexegg.com/backtracking-control-verbs.html#skipfail. For your current example you can use:

.*\.php$(*SKIP)(*FAIL)|^/(alfa|beta)((/wp-(content|admin|includes))([^?\s]*)).*

which would skip files that end in .php.

Demo: https://regex101.com/r/YH3n0x/1/

The .*\.php$ looks for anything until a .php at the end of the string/line.

Match specific urls but not including a php file

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