Hello, According to http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html: ^/somepath(.*) /otherpath$1 [P]: doesn't make sense, not supported I have a client who has: ServerName example.com RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/SomePath/ [1] RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /SomePath/$1 [L,P] [2] ProxyPass /SomePath http://otherhost:7070/SomePath [3] ProxyPassReverse /SomePath http://otherhost:7070/SomePath On Apache 2.0.63. Apache is happily doing the following in response to rewrite rule at [1]: init rewrite engine with requested uri / RewriteCond: input='/' pattern='!^/SomePath/' => matched rewrite / -> /SomePath/ forcing proxy-throughput with http://example.com/SomePath/ go-ahead with proxy request proxy:http://example.com/SomePath/ [OK] Regardless of that [L,P] doesn't make any sense (among other things above), but actually I see Apache supports it, and prefixed /SomePath/ [P] with its canonical name and issued a request to "itself" again with the new path. So first question: is this is OK and supported? Another thing I noticed is when Apache sent the request http://example.com/SomePath/ to itself via proxying, it didn't start the rewrite cycle again; instead it jumped to ProxyPass at [2] directly and served the page as expected! Please find the logs below: proxy_http.c(67): proxy: HTTP: canonicalising URL //example.com/SomePath/ mod_proxy.c(454): Trying to run scheme_handler proxy_http.c(1723): proxy: HTTP: serving URL http://example.com/SomePath/ proxy_http.c(186): proxy: HTTP connecting http://example.com/SomePath/ to example.com:80 proxy_util.c(1097): proxy: HTTP: fam 2 socket created to connect to example.com proxy_http.c(336): proxy: socket is connected proxy_http.c(370): proxy: connection complete to X.X.X.X:80 (example.com) proxy_http.c(67): proxy: HTTP: canonicalising URL //otherhost:7070/SomePath/ mod_proxy.c(454): Trying to run scheme_handler proxy_http.c(1723): proxy: HTTP: serving URL http://otherhost:7070/SomePath/ proxy_http.c(186): proxy: HTTP connecting http://otherhost:7070/SomePath/ to otherhost:7070 proxy_util.c(1097): proxy: HTTP: fam 2 socket created to connect to otherhost proxy_http.c(336): proxy: socket is connected proxy_http.c(370): proxy: connection complete to X.X.X.X:7010 (otherhost) proxy_http.c(1557): proxy: start body send mod_headers.c(527): headers: ap_headers_output_filter() proxy_http.c(1557): proxy: start body send mod_headers.c(527): headers: ap_headers_output_filter() proxy_http.c(1617): proxy: end body send proxy_http.c(1617): proxy: end body send Shouldn't start the internal rewrite cycle again when it send the requests http://example.com/SomePath? The above mean that for serving / Apache had to issue 2 internal requests, am I right? I'm a little bit confused because the configuration is spaghetti and I need to find some logic that proves it's not the best way to do things to make my customer change it in a better way. I didn't search the Inet nor list archive because I cannot figure out what to search for to get answers to my questions. We are running Apache 2.0.63 on Solaris 10. Thanks in advance. Tamer --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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