Redirect based on REMOTE_USER

Question

I would like to redirect to a certain folder based on the REMOTE_USER value, so:

http://example.com/files

would redirect to:

/data/files/charlie/uploads

if the REMOTE_USER value was 'charlie'.

I've tried many things, including this:

RewriteCond %{LA-U:REMOTE_USER} !^$
RewriteRule ^/files/(.*)$ /data/files/%{REMOTE_USER}/uploads/$1 [PT]

but nothing works. I get infinite loops and 404s.

I looked at <If> but it seems REMOTE_USER is not available during <If> evaluation.

[EDIT:]

Current attempt, which results in a redirect loop for http://example.com/files/ looks like this:

# if REMOTE_USER is not empty string
RewriteCond %{LA-U:REMOTE_USER} !^$

# eg /files/foo -> /data/dev/uploads/charlie/foo
RewriteRule ^/files/(.*)$ /data/dev/uploads/%{LA-U:REMOTE_USER}/$1 [PT,L]

#...

<Directory /data/dev/uploads>
    AllowOverride all
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Restricted Content"
    AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/.htpasswd_dev
    Require valid-user
</Directory>

Entire conf file:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName example.com
    ServerAdmin admin@example.com

    DocumentRoot /usr/local/www/example.com/public_html

    ErrorLog /usr/local/www/example.com/logs/error.log
    CustomLog /usr/local/www/example.com/logs/access.log combined
    ErrorLogFormat "%{c}t %M"

    Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
    Header set Origin "http://example.com"
    Header set Accept "Authorization"

    ExpiresActive on

    <FilesMatch "\.(html|htm|js|css|ico)$">
        # Header set Cache-Control "max-age=31536000"
        Header set Cache-Control "must-revalidate"
        # ExpiresDefault "access plus 4 hours"
    </FilesMatch>

    WSGIScriptAlias /api /usr/local/www/example.com/server/server.py
    WSGIPassAuthorization On
    WSGIDaemonProcess example.com threads=15 python-path=/usr/local/www/example.com/server
    WSGIProcessGroup example.com

    Alias /files /data/dev/uploads
    Alias /files/ /data/dev/uploads/

    RewriteEngine On

    # if REMOTE_USER is not empty string
    RewriteCond %{LA-U:REMOTE_USER} !^$

    # eg /files/foo -> /data/dev/uploads/charlie/foo
    RewriteRule ^/files/(.*)$ /data/dev/uploads/%{LA-U:REMOTE_USER}/$1 [PT,L]

    RewriteRule ^/play/(.*)$ /api/play/$1 [PT]
    RewriteRule ^/screen/(.*)$ /api/screen/$1 [PT]
    RewriteRule ^/static/(.*)$ /static/$1 [L]
    RewriteRule ^/(list|edit|help|view).*$ /index.html [L]

    <Directory /usr/local/www/example.com/public_html>
        Require all granted
    </Directory>

    <Directory /usr/local/www/example.com/server>
        Require all granted
    </Directory>

    <Directory /data/dev/uploads>
        AllowOverride all
        AuthType Basic
        AuthName "Restricted Content"
        AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/.htpasswd_dev
        Require valid-user
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

OK, this almost works:

RewriteRule ^/files$ /files/%{LA-U:REMOTE_USER} [PT,L]

Alias /files /data/dev/uploads

<Directory /usr/local/www/example.com/public_html>
    Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory /usr/local/www/example.com/server>
    Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory /data/dev/uploads>
    Options +Indexes
    AllowOverride all
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Restricted Content"
    AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/.htpasswd_dev
    Require valid-user
</Directory>

This seems to work:

RewriteCond %{LA-U:REMOTE_USER} !^$
RewriteRule ^/files/?$ /files/%{LA-U:REMOTE_USER} [PT,L]

Alias /files /data/dev/uploads

<Directory /data/dev/uploads>
    AllowOverride all
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Restricted Content"
    AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/.htpasswd_dev
    Require valid-user
</Directory>

[PT] is to allow the Alias to pick up the redirection, although I'm not sure that's how it works...

Redirect based on REMOTE_USER

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