OK, i got my script looping on STDIN, but now I have a problem with backreferences to the RewriteCond. My condition is this... RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^pdfId\=\d+$ .. but thanks to Noah <sitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> and the manual, i found that If I want to use %1 to reference the id being passed then I need to have the CondPattern in parenthesis. Which I'm assuming would be something like this .... RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ="pdfId=13" .. but I don't always know what the pdfId will be. I want that pdfId, whatever it is, to be passed to the rewritemap to be figured out. How do i store a regex value in %1 so I can use it later in my rewriterule/rewritemap combo ? ... RewriteRule ^/test\.php$ /pdf/${fileName:%1}? [R,L,T=application/pdf] --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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