Hi, I have a script which takes some input variables in the QUERY_STRING, let's say: http://localhost/query.pl?archive=1&chapter=2§ion=3&subsection=4 This is working fine from the user perspective. But, I found out that most search engines just discard the querystring, so my site won't get indexed. Besides of that, urls are quite ugly this way. So what I want to do is do some mapping between canonical urls and actual scripts on my server, so from the users perspective, there would be: http://localhost/query/archive/chapter/section/subsection To achieve this, I tried both AliasMatch ^/query/ /path/to/query.pl (and let query.pl do a split(/\//,$ENV{REQUEST_URI})) and RewriteRule ^/query/(.*) /query.pl?$1 (and let query.pl do a split(/\//,$ENV{QUERY_STRING})) These both seemed to work fine, untill I was facing a ps with some 90MB httpd processes laughing at me. After reviewing /localhost/perl-status it got clear to me. mod_perl obviously compiles scripts in a namespace derived from the original REQUEST_URI, so query.pl gets compiled for each and every combination of arguments. Does anybody has some pointers on how to get mod_perl to compile query.pl only once? Maybe by specifying the package namespace manually from within httpd.conf instead of letting mod_perl do the job based on REQUEST_URI? Ime