Hi robert, thanks for this, it has been a great help. It now serves the pages as i want them without any extraneous entries in the log files. Our application proxies directly to weblogic using the /home context which is why i want all requests to land at that point except , obviously, for the heartbeat and server-status pages. many thanks for your input. Steve -----Original Message----- From: Robert Ionescu [mailto:robsiegen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 14 August 2006 20:36 To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Help with re-write rules Foster, Stephen (ASPIRE) wrote: > # ================================================= > # Rewrite to HTTPS Settings > # ================================================= > RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^online\.domain\.com [NC] > RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$ Use lexicographically equal (!="") here instead of a regular expression > RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://online.domain.com:%{SERVER_PORT}/$1 [R] > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/heartbeat/heartbeat.htm > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/server-status > RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$ > RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}/home [R,L] Why are you using Server_Name, if you force this to be online.domain.com or online.domain.com:%{SERVER_PORT}. Should every request really go to /home? I think you're looking for something like # ================================================= # Rewrite to HTTPS Settings # ================================================= RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/heartbeat/heartbeat.htm RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/server-status RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !=443 RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ https://online.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^/$ https://online.domain.com/home [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^online\.domain\.com [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !="" RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://online.domain.com:%{SERVER_PORT}/$1 [R=301,L] -- Robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 =========================================================== Our e-mail domain has now changed from iraspire.com to hmrcaspire.com. Please update your address books. =========================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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