André Malo wrote on 31.05.2005: >* Arne Heizmann <Arne.Heizmann@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >>Boyle Owen wrote: >>>> >>>>I have a problem with the following RewriteRule causing an >>>>infinite loop: >>>> >>>>RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (first|second|third|fourth) RewriteRule >>>>^(.+)$ %1/$1 [L,R,NC] >>> >>>You do understand what ^(.+)$ converts to? [...] it will match the >>>entire URI, no matter what it is. >> >>But he has the [L] flag set. I would have thought the rule would >>therefore be applied only once. > >.... in this particular request. Since mod_rewrite in .htaccess >causes an internal redirect, it's applied again, and again. Yes, I though along the same line as Arne, and noticed my mistake only two minutes ago. Thanks to all of you for the help, Jan -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a Perl script. - Programming Perl --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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