Boyle Owen wrote on 31.05.2005: >>RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (first|second|third|fourth) RewriteRule >>^(.+)$ %1/$1 [L,R,NC] > >You do understand what ^(.+)$ converts to? It means: "from the >start, 1 or more of any character (greedy), to the end" > >That is, it will match the entire URI, no matter what it is. > I do understand it. What I did miss, though, was the fact that the R flag caused a transparent redirect so the rewritten URL would enter the cycle again. >Rather than asking for a theoretical explanation of why your pattern >doesn't work, why not describe what you're trying to achieve and >explain why you think you need this pattern. Eg, > >- what is the input URL? - what do you want the output to look like? The problem is that I get requests for these URLs: http://firsthost/somestring http://secondhost/somestring http://thirdhost/somestring All of the hostnames are just aliases pointing to the same DocumentRoot. So I wanted a simple rule that adds the first part of the hostname to the URL: http://firsthost/first/somestring http://secondhost/second/somestring http://thirdhost/third/somestring so the extended URLs can be matched by the following rules: RewriteRule ^first/somestring/?$ cgi-bin/show.pl?id=1234 [L,NC] RewriteRule ^second/somestring/?$ cgi-bin/show.pl?id=4321 [L,NC] RewriteRule ^third/somestring/?$ cgi-bin/show.pl?id=4883 [L,NC] I came up with RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (first|second|third) RewriteRule ^(.+)$ %1/$1 [NC] which works, now that I removed the R flag. Thanks, Jan -- Lead me not into temptation. I can find it myself. - Jeffrey Kaplan --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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