Hi Joshua, thanks for the advice... you're right the url was changing, but to get to the right folder I need to use ../cgi-bin/trac.cgi as without the double dots it goes to htdocs/cgi... Etc. With the change in place I get a 400 bad request error, with nothing useful in the logs. > -----Original Message----- > From: Joshua Slive [mailto:jslive@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 11 April 2005 17:11 > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [users@httpd] rewrite rule not setting > environment variable > > On Apr 11, 2005 12:04 PM, AndyJudson > <ajudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > ## this would be my equivalent rewrite rule, but fails... > always says > > the env-var is not set!! > > > > #RewriteRule ^/trac/([[:alnum:]]+)(/?.*) > > http://www.oatsoft.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi$2 > > [E=TRAC_ENV:"c:\\program\ files\\subversion\\trac\\oats"\\$1] > > Does the URL in the client's location bar change with the > direct? If so, you are doing an external-redirect, which > will lose the env variable. Replace http://www.oatsoft.... > with simply > /cgi-bin/trac.cgi$2 to get an internal-redirect. > > Joshua. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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