Hi, I have a problem with the following RewriteRule causing an infinite loop: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (first|second|third|fourth) RewriteRule ^(.+)$ %1/$1 [L,R,NC] When requesting a URL like http://firsthost/something I end up getting something like http://firsthost/first/first/first/first/first/first/first/first/first/something and the server returns an error. When changing the RewriteRule to this: RewriteRule ^(.+)$ hardcoded/$1 [L,R,NC] I get http://firsthost/hardcoded/hardcoded/hardcoded/hardcoded/hardcoded/hardcoded/hardcoded/hardcoded/hardcoded/hardcoded/hardcoded/hardcoded/hardcoded/hardcoded/hardcoded/hardcoded/something and the same error message mod_rewrite: maximum number of internal redirects reached Why is my pattern ^(.+)$ causing an infinite loop here? This does not happen if the substitution string does not match the pattern itself, as in RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (first|second|third|fourth) RewriteRule ^(something)$ %1/$1 [L,R,NC] Thanks, Jan -- I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know. - Mark Twain --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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