> > I'm still not having any luck with this. It appears as though > > authentication is happening before the rewrite. I need the > > opposite: need rewrite before the authentication. > > > > Oddly, a google search turns up posts with both situations. > > In some, people are in my boat (trying to get rewrite before auth) > > > > In others, people are stating that Apache actually rewrites before > > authentication (which is want I'm after). > > It depends, I believe, on where you put the RewriteRules. If they are > in the main server context, they happen before auth. If they are in > .htaccess or <Directory> sections, they happen after auth. I don't > know of any way to work around this. Still no luck. So I am going to need to come up with an alternative scheme. Thanks Joshua! Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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