Hi! I originally set my virtual host up like this in my httpd.conf file: <VirtualHost *:80> .... ServerName www.example.com ServerAlias example.com RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301] </VirtualHost> Running curl to check the setup I get: [$] curl example.com Result: --------------------------------------------------- <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>301 Moved Permanently</title> ... <h1>Moved Permanently</h1> <p>The document has moved <a href="http://www.example.com//">here</a>.</p> ... --------------------------------------------------- As you can see from the link "The document has moved . . . ", href is set to: href="http://www.example.com//", i.e. with TWO slashes after and not ONE slash. To fix it i changed the RewriteRule From: RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301] To: RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com$1 [L,R=301] and now the "301 Moved Permanently" HTML page gives: The document has moved <a href="http://www.example.com/">here</a> Question 1) Are there any problems running a): RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com$1 [L,R=301] Rather than b): RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301] ? Will e.g. a slash always be added as a part of $1 in a) if it exists in the original url query (as caught by the RewriteCond shown above)? Question 2) Is the method I use to alias "example.com" with "www.example.com", a good way to set up a ServerAlias in my httpd.conf file, or are there better ways? My current method, as mentioned above, is: ServerName www.example.com ServerAlias example.com RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com$1 [L,R=301] Thanks for any input! Richard Taubo --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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