Thanks for spending your time for this. I am using Apache available with Mandrake 9.2 distro and is installed in Mandrake 10.1. I checked this on a win2k with Apache 1.3.29 and it works. What I want to do is check that the user requested URI doesnt starts with a looked up value from a RewriteMap. Like this RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/${map:%{SERVER_NAME}} Can you tell me whether it is bug in 1.3.28. If bug what is the work around without doing any modification to Apache. On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:25:58 -0500, Noah <sitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 04:01:00PM +0530, Antony Paul wrote: > > > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/%{REMOTE_HOST} .* > > > > This is giving a Systax error and RewriteCond: cannot compile regular > > expression error. > > Because your syntax is invalid. ;) > > From http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html#RewriteCond: > > Syntax: RewriteCond TestString CondPattern > > You have *three* arguments to RewriteCond: > 1) %{REQUEST_URI} > 2) /%{REMOTE_HOST} > 3) .* > > What exactly are you trying to accomplish with this condition? > > --n > > -- > <huey> dd of=/dev/fd0 if=/dev/flippy bs=1024 > <huey> ^^^ Making Flippy Floppy > > -- rgds Antony Paul http://www.geocities.com/antonypaul24/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx