Mod Rewrite not redirecting as expected - .htaccess

Question

I have rewrite rule to redirect to www and rewrite rules to redirect to ssl. This is my desired setup and everything works perfectly except when I add this new condition:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/new-review?.* [NC]
If that condition is true I do not want the ssl redirect to happen. The problem I am seeing is that when I do this the entire url redirects to https://www.example.com/index.php?query=string
The normal behavior even for every other page works just fine. the URI stays the same but index.php is run. Here is my htaccess file below:
Options +FollowSymLinks -Indexes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?!www\.).*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/new-review?.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php
My expected behavior is someone types in the url http://www.example.com/new-review?query=string and this page runs the code on index.php without switching the users uri to index.php. I just can't figure out why the last rewrite rule:
RewriteRule . index.php
follows expected behavior for everything except that one condition. All I want is for this one page to work as a non-ssl page but still run via index.php.

Answer 1

Important trick is to use THE_REQUEST variable instead of REQUEST_URI in your condition. THE_REQUEST variable represents original request received by Apache from your browser and it doesn't get overwritten after execution of some rewrite rules.
So you can use:
Options +FollowSymLinks -Indexes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?!www\.).*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !^\s/new-review [NC]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

Answer 2

The rewrite engine will loop until the URI stops changing. What happens when you request /new-review is it doesn't match any of the redirect rules, then it matches the last rule and it gets applied, thus /new-review is rewritten to /index.php. Now, the rewrite engine loops, and the new URI is applied. This time, your second rule matches the URI (/index.php) and thus gets redirected. If you don't want index.php to get redirected, then you need to either prevent all looping, or add a passthrough:
Options +FollowSymLinks -Indexes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} 200
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?!www\.).*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/new-review?.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php
or
Options +FollowSymLinks -Indexes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(index\.php)?$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?!www\.).*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/new-review?.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php