Apache .htaccess file not rewriting properly - regex

Question

I have an .htaccess file. It needs to rewrite URLs in two cases: for the MVC framework and in a more special case. I want to rewrite any requests to "/resources/newspaper" if the user doesn't have a cookie named "cfnw-hash". I've tried putting the code before the MVC code and after it. Doesn't work. It worked before switching over to the MVC framework, though I really don't have enough .htaccess knowledge to see if that's causing the issue. Here's code:
Options -Indexes
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options -Indexes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# Force to exclude the trailing slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)/$
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ $1 [R=307,L]
# Allow any files or directories that exist to be displayed directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !cfnw-hash [NC]
RewriteRule \/resources\/newspaper.* http://www.example.com/error/401 [R=401,NC,L]

Answer 1

Combine your rules and I think you RewriteRule might not be matching because of the prepending / and also the cookie matching. Try this. Notice the cookie part that you update with your cookie.
Options -Indexes
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !cookie_name=specific_value; [NC]
RewriteRule ^resources/newspaper/?(.*) http://www.example.com/error/401 [R=401,NC,L]
# Force to exclude the trailing slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)/$
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ $1 [R=307,L]
# Allow any files or directories that exist to be displayed directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

Answer 2

Have it this way:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options -Indexes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !cfnw-hash [NC]
RewriteRule ^resources/newspaper /error/401 [R=401,NC,L]
# Force to exclude the trailing slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)/$
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ $1 [R=307,L]
# Allow any files or directories that exist to be displayed directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
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