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I added

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /article/
RewriteRule ! ^article/\d+ redirect.php [L]

to .htaccess and got a .htaccess: RewriteRule: bad flag delimiters message. Reviewed the related questions here but they didn't help.

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RewriteRule ! ^article/\d+ redirect.php [L]
RewriteRule !^article/\d+ redirect.php [L]

Yes, the second works. You can't have a space between the ! and the pattern. AFAICS this is not mentioned in the Apache docs.

chx
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  • The ! prefix-operator is part of the argument and spaces are argument delimiters. In your first example redirect.php consequently gets interpreted as the 3rd (flags) argument, which is obviously invalid - hence the error. – MrWhite Nov 18 '22 at 13:02