I do something similar but the only way I have been able to make it work is by doing a "subrequest", i.e. having the VH make a request to itself (or another VH for that matter) Here is an example to give you the general idea, at the expense of an extra HTTP request: <VirtualHost 1.2.3.4> # RewriteCond to break recursion, RewriteRule proxies request to ourselves prefixing the path with /path-prefix RewriteCond $1 !^/path-prefix/ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /path-prefix$1 [P] RewriteRule ^/path-prefix/([^\/]+)/(.*)$ http://appserver/doit?arg1=$1&arg2=$2 [P,QSA] <IfModule mod_cache.c> <IfModule mod_mem_cache.c> CacheEnable mem /path-prefix </IfModule> <IfModule mod_disk_cache.c> CacheEnable disk /path-prefix </IfModule> </IfModule> </VirtualHost> --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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