Hello everyone! I hope there is someone out there who can help with this or can point me out to someone who might be able to... We use Scientific Linux IV (based on Redhat Enterprise 4) and Apache 2.2.3-1i386 (RPM from Apache) Here is the snippet from my virthost RewriteEngine on # Block every IP that is not from DESY RewriteCond %{HTTP:ORIGCLIENTADDR} ^131\.169\.* [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP:ORIGCLIENTADDR} ^141\.34\.* RewriteRule ^(.*) http://localhost:8080/sites/mysite$1 [P,L] RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.desy.de/ [L] (Info: ORIGCLIENTADDR is a variable set by our loadbalancer to use for rewriting and logging purposes.) a.) If I send a request to "/" from a machine with the IP 192.76.172.251 the virthostlog shows this 192.76.172.251 - - [28/Sep/2006:15:44:16 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 302 269 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7" As expected he or she sees http://www.desy.de/ and I have the corresponding line in the RewriteLog. b.) If now someone with a matching IP-Adress requests "/" he or she gets correctly redirected to "localhost:8080/..." and get's the page and elements from the underlying content management system. virthostlog and rewritelog show that everything works as expected. c.) NOW, if I repeat step a.) suddenly the virthostlog shows 192.76.172.251 - - [28/Sep/2006:15:40:17 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 16173 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7" and there is not even a single line in the RewriteLog! Why does apache suddenly serve out "/" without even running into the RewriteConds? Where does Apache fetch it from? As it seems Apache completely overrides my RewriteBlock causing a security risk to our data. This is quite serious trouble here at the WebOffice and I am completely out of ideas. I have tried rewriting the RewriteBlock in several ways but the outcome is always the same. It works so far but in case of c.) it doesn't even get touched -> no line in the RewriteLog... Oh, one thing, I've checked the underlying CMS, too, it's not giving out stuff "through the backdoor". Tired an puzzled greetings /Carsten ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Carsten Germer Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (Web-Office, IT) phone: +49-40-8998-1661 Notkestr. 85 web: http://wof.desy.de 22607 Hamburg e-mail: carsten.germer@xxxxxxx Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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