On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Reese <howell.r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07-Jan-10 12:24, Tom Evans wrote: > >> "RewriteEngine Off" disables the rewrite engine, so that rewrite rules >> are not applied. Seems unlikely that is what you intended. > > It would appear that, by removing the "RewriteEngine Off" line, > the bits on the prior 3 lines now work as expected and intended. > > I'd still like to hear more on why that is so. > > Testing starts anew. > > Reese > Each directive is fully described in the docs, available online and installed as part of apache. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriteengine The first line is edifying: "The RewriteEngine directive enables or disables the runtime rewriting engine. If it is set to off this module does no runtime processing at all. It does not even update the SCRIPT_URx environment variables." Cheers Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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