On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 20:53:50 +0900, jm wrote > The scenario is the need to rewrite a request for dummy.example.com > to another directory. The reasoning behind this is a quirk in our > current set up so we can map algorithmically map and it would > involve too many rewrite rules to handle manually. The problem is > that this seems to be working to the point of modifying the filename, > but apache returns 403 to the browser and logs I just woke up and my head hurts and I'm operating off the top of my head, here, to take this for what it's worth (LOL) but I believe what you want to do here is to use mod_ruby to write a translation handler so that your code can give Apache a different address to use during the address translation phase. The mod_ruby directive is RubyTransHandler CLASSNAME Hope that helps, Kirk Haines