Hi, I'm trying to pass everything that is not a file to `index.php` as a request parameter without using a `.htaccess` file. A request to http://www.example.com/test must be rewritten to http://www.example.com/index.php?q=/test. I'm using Debian Squeeze (6.0) and Apache 2.2.16. Here is my configuration file: <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot /var/www/example ServerName www.example.com ServerAlias example.com ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error/example.log CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access/example.log combined <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301] </IfModule> <Directory "/var/www/test"> AllowOverride None Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks DirectoryIndex index.php <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA] </IfModule> </Directory> </VirtualHost> The first call to `mod_rewrite` within the _VirtualHost_ scope will as expected change example.com to www.example.com. But, the second call in the _Directory_ does not seems to work and calling http://www.example.com/test will throw a 404 error. Here is the result in the log file: (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /test (3) applying pattern '^/(.*)' to uri '/test' (4) RewriteCond: input='www.example.com' pattern='!^www\.example\.com $' [NC] => not-matched (1) pass through /test (3) [perdir /var/www/example/] strip per-dir prefix: /var/www/example/test -> test (3) [perdir /var/www/example/] applying pattern '^/(.*)$' to uri 'test' (1) [perdir /var/www/example/] pass through /var/www/test/test File does not exist: /var/www/test/test What did I miss? -- Jimmy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx