Stephen, First of all, thanks for your help. I knew it was an easy fix. My lack of RexEx knowledge was shooting me in the foot. mod_dir is now loading when Apache starts. I changed my code in the VirtualHost block in httpd-vhosts.conf to look like this: </VirtualHost> [...] # list of redirects RedirectMatch ^/$ /home/index.html [R] </VirtualHost> And that did it. One last question, though. This fixed my redirection for just this virtual host. Do I need to repeat this in each virtual host on the server, or can I put the redirect code in another location so it will apply to all virtual hosts on this server? Thanks, Darren -----Original Message----- From: S.Hayles [mailto:sh23@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 11:38 AM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [users@httpd] URL Rewriting trouble with Apache 2.2 On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Darren Hall wrote: [...] > The first rewrite adds a trailing slash to the url when requesting any > directory in the site (or anything that is not a document). [...] Given that you want the modified URL to appear in the browser, you need to perform a redirect. A redirect with added slash for directories is what mod_dir does (and I'm sure it will be there in a default install). See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_dir.html [...] > RewriteRule \.org/$ \.org/home/index.jsp [R] [...] The string that the rewrite rule matches does not include the hostname, so you just need to match ^/$ (If you do want to test the hostname, see RewriteCond) Steven --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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