To the best to my memory, the following .htaccess worked on linux, but on OSX, the result is that the browser gives me the text of the script, rather the output of the script. FYI: The script is fully functional when requested via cgi-bin. # .htaccess RewriteEngine On DirectoryIndex journalLoader.py RewriteCond $1 !^(journalLoader\.py|images|css|js|robots\.txt|favicon\.ico) RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ./journalLoader.py/$1 [L,QSA] # /.htaccess the script journalLoader.py is at the path http://linus.johnson.com/cgi-bin/baker/journal/journalLoader.py (internal search domain) and when requested provides the output I expect. The directory/folder contain journalLoader.py is symlinked to my wwwroot directory. When I point my browser to http://linus.johnson.com/journal !!!!!! The server gives me the text for the script rather than the output !!!!!! I'm woefully underinformed when it comes to .htaccess and mode rewrite, but it occurs to me that if this works on a linux box and not the the OSX platform, some configuration is need for Apache? What would that be? thanks -- Tim tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com http://www.akwebsoft.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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