Hello all, I am having a hard time writing the following cond/rule: Part 1 (easy) If user requests /search/<keywords>/<category>/<sortby>/<sorttype> where keywords is an actual string, the following should be invoked: /search.php?keyword=<keywords>&category=<category>&sortby=<sortby>&sorttype=<sorttype> Part 2 (not-so-easy) If user requests /search/<keywords>/<category>/<sortby>/<sorttype> where "|" is listed as any of the params (meaning no filtering for that param is needed), do not use that param in the search filter. It would be nice to be able to exclude such params from the query string (i.e. /search.php?keyword=seo&category=webmaster when the original search contained /search/seo/webmaster/|/| -- only <keywords> and <category> are supplied ) I believe it is a combination of RewriteCond and RewriteRule that needs to be applied but have no experience of dealing with the former. Any help will be greatly appreciated! James __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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