This is on my home computer with Windows 7 and Apache 2.2. Once it works here I will upload to my host, Godaddy. I have AllowOverride FileInfo and know the .htaccess file is being read. 'mysite' is a <VIRTUALHOST> on my home computer. On the host it is 'site.com'. DirectoryIndex is index.html index.php I am just learning about Apache, mod_rewrite and regex.
I have a whole bunch of subdirectories (/mydir/xxx/) each with it's own outdated index.html file. I have written a single mydir/index.php?topic=xxx) to replace them all Directly calling http://mysite/mydir?topic=xxx works fine. I want traffic to mysite/mydir/xxx/ where the index.htmls are outdated to rewrite to mysite/mydir?topic=xxx the new general purpose index.php but images mysite/mydir/xxx/img.jpg are still in xxx and to leave mysite/mydir?topic=xxx the correct call without change and mysite/myotherdir should not be effected In mydir/.htaccess I tried: RewriteEngine on # for a directory, not an image file RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} -d #doesn't have query RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^mydir/(\w+)/?$ mydir?topic=$1 [L,R=301] but it still gets mysite/mydir/xxx/index.html instead of mysite/mydir/index.php?topic=xxx access.log shows: "GET /mydir/xxx HTTP/1.1" 301 239 "GET /mydir/xxx/ HTTP/1.1" 200 4831 Could you point out my errors, please? Roy Leroux