On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 15:22:19 -0400 "Joshua Slive" <joshua@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > There are a number of ways to get around this problem. Moving to > httpd.conf is always preferable in my opinion. But you could also > try replacing your REQUEST_FILENAME test with a test against > REQUEST_URI or THE_REQUEST. Since these should always have the > original request data in them, they won't be affected by the > previous rewrite stuff and therefore will only match for requests > that are explicitly requesting the old names. Thanks - this was the ticket. I figured I'd post the final solution in case someone else ever finds this thread: First block - handles rewriting new URL's to existing pages on the filesystem: my/new/url.php => sitepages/pid123.php RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l RewriteRule .* ${smc_rewriter:%{REQUEST_FILENAME}^%{REQUEST_URI}} [L,QSA,NS] Second block - redirects anyone that still uses the old URLs to the new page names: sitepages/pid123.php => my/new/url.php (301 redirect) RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} sitepages/p.*.php [OR] RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} store/p.*.php RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !redirect_to_new_url=yes RewriteRule .* ${smc_rewriter:%{REQUEST_FILENAME}^%{REQUEST_URI}}?redirect_to_new_url=yes [R=301] Thanks for your help, so far this is being well-received and the performance seems pretty good (certainly better than hundreds of rewriterule's in a .htaccess). Josh --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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