.htaccess redirect folder and subfolder except for some subfolders

Question

i have a problem with my .htaccess I want to redirect any page and subfolder in the folder /w/ to the main page of my website, so i want to do something like this:

www.mysite.com/w/           - redirect -> www.mysite.com
www.mysite.com/w/subfolder/ - redirect -> www.mysite.com

But, i want to NOT redirect some subfolder like:

www.mysite.com/w/subfolder1 --> not redirect 
www.mysite.com/w/subfolder2 --> not redirect 

My htaccess is:

RedirectMatch 301 /w/(?!subfolder1) /$1

But it doesn't work, i tried with:

RedirectMatch 301 /w/(?!^subfolder1) /$1

and

RedirectMatch 301 /w/(?!subfolder1$) /$1

But nothing was right!

Please help me :(

Answer 1

Try :

RedirectMatch 301 ^/w/((?!subfolder1|subfolder2).*) /$1

You can exclude more folders from the directive, just seperate them using a bar |