vHost redirect not working at all - apache

Question

Goal: Redirecting every request to index.php except the files and folders (and their content) listed in the RewriteCond.
A friend did set up the server with me, but hadn't any time to fix this bug yet. The page automatically ends up at HTTPS.
When using this as 000-default.conf (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf), the page just doesn't redirect to index.php. For example: Accessing www.page.com/uploads/38 works, although it should redirect to www.page.com/index.php. That's quite annoying as I'm emulating a filesystem and don't want to allow access to the files, at least not that way.
a2ensite 000-default.conf: Site 000-default.conf is already enabled
a2enmod rewrite: Module rewrite already enabled
This is my 000-default.conf:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin root#page.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/default
ServerName www.page.com
ServerAlias page.com
RewriteEngine On
<Location />
RewriteBase /
Options -Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(index\.php|css|fonts|gfx|js|favicon\.ico)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [L,QSA]
</Location>
LogLevel warn
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/default_error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/default_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerAdmin root#page.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/default
ServerName www.page.com
ServerAlias page.com
RewriteEngine On
<Location />
RewriteBase /
Options -Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(index\.php|css|fonts|gfx|js|favicon\.ico)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [L,QSA]
</Location>
LogLevel warn
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/default_error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/default_access.log combined
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/page.com.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/page.com.key
SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/ssl/comodo-ca.crt
</VirtualHost>
When looking at default_error.log, I often find stuff like this:
Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error.
And also:
RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `page.com' does NOT match server name!?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The %{REQUEST_URI} variable starts with a /, your regex doesn't so that condition will always be true, including when the URI gets rewritten to /index.php, this is causing the loop.
Replace the block with:
RewriteBase /
Options -Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|css|fonts|gfx|js|favicon\.ico)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [L,QSA]
Additionally, I'm guessing you've bought a certificate for the name "page.com", not "www.page.com", which means when you go to "www.page.com" and the browser sees a certificate for "page.com", it'll throw an exception. You need a cert for "www.page.com" (and optionally with "page.com" as an alternate name)/.
EDIT
Hmm, this didn't work for me either inside the <Location /> container. But this worked outside of the container by itself:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|css|fonts|gfx|js|favicon\.ico)
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /index.php [L,R]