I have (set in /etc/bashrc): echo $HTML_TST aa|bb|cc|dd|ee and I tried: RewriteCond ee %{ENV:HTML_TST} following the documentation that says: Syntax: RewriteCond TestString CondPattern I expected ee to be recognized as one ofthe alternatives in the pattern. It didn't work. Frustrated, I tried: RewriteCond %{ENV:HTML_TST} ee To my surprise, it did work, and as hoped, ff failed to match. This meets my requirement of matching any of the members of a list, but appears to be contrary to the documentation. Am I skating in this ice? Thanks for your help. Mike. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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