Re: [tlug] htaccess, rewritecond, and wildcards!! [help!]

[Darren Cook <darren@example.com>]

> I have tried the following:
> 
> RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !(*.)saitama(*.) [NC]
> 
> to no avail.
> 
> I have also tried things like
> 
> RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !*saitama* [NC]
> RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !saitama [NC]
> RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !^.saitama. [NC]
> (as you may have noticed, I have no idea what the "^" does, but it
> seems to work sometimes.)

I was just looking at the below tutorial, and it seems like just
"!saitama" should've worked. But how about turning it into a full regex:
 RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !^(.*)saitama(.*)$ [NC]

Darren

http://www.vortexmind.net/index.php/2006-02-26-apache-htaccess-tweaking-tutorial/