.htaccess: RewriteRule problem

Question

i need to much the sentense, if it doesn't contain some words i wrote it like this

^([^news|home|rules|contacts|month_films|archive|ratings])$

but it doesn't work. could you tell me why? thanks

Answer 1

try this (without []):

 ^(news|home|rules|contacts|month_films|archive|ratings)$

Answer 2

In this case, put a ! in front of the regular expression and use a RewriteCond:

 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(news|home|rules|contacts|month_films|archive|ratings)
 RewriteRule <whatever it is you want to do>