Hi all, I apologize if someone has posted on this but I did not find it searching the archives. I currently manage an apache webserver 1.3.33 with a large number of virtualhosts. As you can guess, my log files are ridden with 404's about the missing robots.txt and favicon.ico files. One obvious solution to this problem is to put an icon and robots file into all of there root level directories, but this takes work. Instead, I wanted to use mod_rewrite to just have all the address's rewrite to a common favicon, in the event that there was no favicon present (same with robots). The code looked like this (thank you: laffey.tv) RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule .*favicon\.ico$ /var/web/favicon.ico [L] RewriteRule .*robots\.txt$ /var/web/robots.txt [L] I put that in my main server conf file thinking that it would catch all addresses, and if it failed to find one of the files, it would spit out the common file. This hit a glitch though, it appears that Apache sends the address information to the virtual host before running it through the main config (unless i have something else wrong). This means that I can't just write this one rule once, I would have to put it into every single virtualhost. I'm curios if anyone knows a way around this. If not, can anyone recommend any documentation the apache stuff for writing custom mod's? ----------------------------- -- Justin Gehring -- -- PH: 651 - 208 -8797 -- -- EM: justin@xxxxxxxxxxx -- ----------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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