Bob: Thanks for the excellent advice. That resolved the issue. I was mistakenly thinking that the RewriteCond did all of the matching. I forgot about matching within the RewriteRule itself. Thanks again! Ken Morley -----Original Message----- From: Bob Ionescu [mailto:bobsiegen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 2:26 PM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Problems with redirects... 2009/2/16 Ken Morley <Ken@xxxxxxxx>: > Our httpd.conf file contains: > > # Redirects to accomodate PDA's and other tiny screens... > RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "BlackBerry" [NC] > RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.saddlebrook\.com$ [NC] > RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://www.saddlebrook.com/pda [L,R] > > This successfully detects BlackBerrys trying to access > "www.saddlebrook.com" and successfully changes the URL to > "http://www.saddlebrook.com/pda" as I expected. > > But when the redirected browser runs through the rules again, the regexp > "^www\.saddlebrook\.com$" is also matching the new URL > "http://www.saddlebrook.com/pda". So it redirects endlessly. > > Why is regexp "^www\.saddlebrook\.com$" matching > http://www.saddlebrook.com/pda" and how can I make this work correctly? Your RegEx ^/(.*) is open for every request. To catch the "root" request only, change it to ^/$ instead. Your condition checks the host header. You're redirecting to the same host (www.saddlebrook.com), why should the host header be different? It should match against your RegEx if the host www.saddlebrook.com was requested, of course. Bob --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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