Hi, First, I supppose that's just a cut/paste mistake, but with RewriteEngine set to Off, not much will happen. Second, you might want to play with [P] flag to proxy the request. Anyway, your last rule is strange: you might try: RewriteRule .* http://www.theanotherpage.com [P] Olivier CHIROUZE I&0 Infrastructure Volvo Information Technology ________________________________ From: Jean-Philippe Battu [mailto:jeanpba@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: 14 February 2007 08:13 To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Question about mod_rewrite hello I need help and advices about using mod_rewrite I have some pdf files on my web site A foreign web site has stored these pdf file on a html file on this foreign web site I would like to redirect its requests to another page so I wrote: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine Off RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://www.theforeignwebsite.com/*\.html RewriteRule (.+) http://www.theanotherpage.com </IfModule> But it doesn't work ! When the foreign web site tries to access , the redirection begins but doesn't finish. in the access log of my web site, the access is repeated 20 times with a 302 number for the redirect On IE, an error message is returned, on firefox, it tells me to check the cookies... However I tested this configuration on the same apache server ( 2.0.52) on another machine and the redirection works well and it succeded I tried to specify the redirection code 302 or 301 in the append flag R but it is the same Thanks for your help cheers Jean-Philippe Battu Grenoble --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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