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    copied!<p>My hosting company recently upgraded me from Apache 1 to Apache 2, and I've started seeing some quite different behaviour with my mod_rewrite stuff.</p> <p>Here's my .htaccess file:</p> <pre><code>DirectoryIndex blog.html # Various rewrite rules. &lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c&gt; RewriteEngine on # Rewrite current-style URLs of the form 'showpage.php?url=x'. RewriteRule ^(.*\.html)$ showpage.php?url=$1 [L,QSA] &lt;/IfModule&gt; </code></pre> <p>Now, previously with Apache 1, if you went to <a href="http://mysite.com/" rel="noreferrer">http://mysite.com/</a> then the DirectoryIndex would first take effect (<a href="http://mysite.com/blog.html" rel="noreferrer">http://mysite.com/blog.html</a>) and then the RewriteRule would turn that into <a href="http://mysite.com/showpage.php?url=/blog.html" rel="noreferrer">http://mysite.com/showpage.php?url=/blog.html</a></p> <p>Now with Apache 2, if you go to <a href="http://mysite.com/blog.html" rel="noreferrer">http://mysite.com/blog.html</a> it gets rewritten as expected, but if you go to <a href="http://mysite.com/" rel="noreferrer">http://mysite.com/</a> it serves you the vanilla blog.html file, without rewriting it to showpage.php. So the RewriteRule is being applied <em>before</em> the DirectoryIndex kicks in.</p> <p>Besides adding an extra rule explicitly to catch the root page (which will be tedious since I'd have to take account of all subdirectories which also have a DirectoryIndex) does anybody know a way to make Apache 2 apply the RewriteRule <em>after</em> applying the DirectoryIndex?</p>
 

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