Question

I’m no expert in mod_rewrite at all and I’m trying to add a condition to the rule below to:

1. match which is not equal to ‘share’
2. not match anything with a dot in it

RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ http://domain.com/directory/index.php?key=$1 [L]

http://domain.com/directory/share will not be matched (share)

http://domain.com/directory/foo.php will not be matched (contains a dot)

http://domain.com/directory/abcde will be matched

http://domain.com/directory/abcde-4 will be matched

All ULRs will not have a trailing slash

Any help will be much appreciated

Answer 1

Don’t match anything with a dot by adding . to the negated character class:

RewriteRule ^([^./]*)$ <snip>

Don’t match an ending /share:

RewriteRule ^([^/]*/share)$ <snip>

Combine them to not-match either using a negative lookahead:

RewriteRule ^([^./])*(?!/share)$ <snip>