Hello, I'm using mod_rewrite to correct some URLs on my web server, running Apache 2.0. But I have a strange problem with it. First, here's the rules I have set: SetEnvIf Host .+ desired_hostname=beta.unclassified.de SetEnvIfNoCase Host ^beta\.unclassified\.de$ !desired_hostname RewriteCond %{ENV:desired_hostname} !^$ RewriteRule ^(.*) http://%{ENV:desired_hostname}/$1 [L,R=301] This is from the file .htaccess in the "beta" directory under unclassified.de, which is also the document root of beta.unclassified.de. It first checks whether the page was requested through the wrong domain. If so, the environment variable desired_hostname is set to where the visitor should be redirected. The second part then redirects the URL relative to the current directory as-is only over to the right domain. This seems to work fine with non-empty URLs like this: http://unclassified.de/beta/kontakt -> http://beta.unclassified.de/kontakt But as soon as the left part of the RewriteRule directive should be empty, it automatically inserts the full path of the directory on the web server, like here: http://unclassified.de/beta -> http://beta.unclassified.de//www/web002/beta Whereas this works: http://unclassified.de/beta/ (notice the trailing slash) -> http://beta.unclassified.de/ Can anybody please explain me why it doesn't just redirect to the new domain's root directory? Where does that serverside path come from? I can't find any hint on it in the documentation. This is really bugging me since it is one of the few issues I have with a simple and reliable redirection of my website to one single domain name. -- Yves Goergen "LonelyPixel" <nospam.list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Visit my web laboratory at http://beta.unclassified.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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