Nick Kew wrote: > I don't know why mod_rewrite does that. Under normal > circumstances, mod_dir will do that according to your > DirectoryIndex setting. Just to be sure there was no unintended interaction by mod_dir I changed the rule from: RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.html$ $1 to: RewriteRule ^(.*)zoo\.bar$ $1 ...but it still adds zoo.bar back even after the match and rewrite. Also I realized I forgot to mention my Apache version: 2.0.58 (Gentoo). --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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