Hi, I have a very simple mod_rewrite requirement but I can't seem to make it work. I want all paths to invoke a php script *except* some that begin with certain directories. For example, consider the following URLs: http://www.example.com/z/blog/07/10 http://www.example.com/z/css/style.css I want the first to execute the PHP script. But if the request path begins with /z/css/ then I want the PHP script to NOT be executed such that css/style.css is retrieved as if there had been no RewriteRule at all. I tried the following: Alias /z/ /home/miallen/p/z/www/ <Directory /home/miallen/p/z/www> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /z RewriteRule ^/css/(.*) css/$1 [L] RewriteRule ^/* index.php Order allow,deny Allow from all Options Indexes FollowSymLinks </Directory> The second RewriteRule works and I have seen the first rule work if I don't prefix it's expression with ^/ but they do not work together. Can someone give me a clue? Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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