First off thanks for your help, I clicked reply not reply all before so I wanted to say thanks publicly so I don't look too ungrateful. :-) On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 10:57 +0200, Krist van Besien wrote: > > > > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*abbey(.*) > > A better way to "short circuit" is just to add a > > RewriteRule .*abbey.* - [L] > > before the existing rule. This keeps the URL unchanged. That rule didn't work for me and stopped the other rule working correctly. I need to get my test server back up got it down for other purposes atm, then I'll get some logs posted to show what happened. Nick --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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