ServerName www.mysite.com
ServerAlias mysite.com
DocumentRoot /www/mysite/htdocs
Options +FollowSymLinks
User apache
RewriteEngine on
RewriteLog “/www/mysite/logs/rewrite_log”
RewriteLogLevel 9
RewriteRule ^/article-([0-9]*)-([A-Z|a-z|0-9|-|_|/s]*)\.dx$ /display.do?title=$2&pg=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^/(.*\.do);jsessionid* /$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^/(.*[\.html|\.jpg|\.JPG|\.gif|\.GIF|\.css]);jsessionid* /$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ http://www.mysite.com/open.do [R]

(note I’m filtering out the “jsessionid”s to make search engine friendly)
(Using [PT] at end of rule)
192.168.1.26 - - [29/Apr/2007:20:53:30 +1000] [www.mysite.com/sid#80c9038][rid#80d1ea8/initial] (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /article-9-Hes_My_Hero_Hero.dx
192.168.1.26 - - [29/Apr/2007:20:53:30 +1000] [www.mysite.com/sid#80c9038][rid#80d1ea8/initial] (3) applying pattern ‘^(.*)/article-([0-9]*)-([A-Z|a-z|0-9|-|_|/s]*)\.dx$’ to uri ‘/article-9-Hes_My_Hero_Hero.dx’
192.168.1.26 - - [29/Apr/2007:20:53:30 +1000] [www.mysite.com/sid#80c9038][rid#80d1ea8/initial] (2) rewrite /article-9-Hes_My_Hero.dx -> /display.do?title=Hes_My_Hero&pg=9
192.168.1.26 - - [29/Apr/2007:20:53:30 +1000] [www.mysite.com/sid#80c9038][rid#80d1ea8/initial] (3) split uri=/show.do?title=Hes_My_Hero&pg=9 -> uri=/display.do, args=title=Hes_My_Hero&pg=9
192.168.1.26 - - [29/Apr/2007:20:53:30 +1000] [www.mysite.com/sid#80c9038][rid#80d1ea8/initial] (2) forcing ‘/display.do’ to get passed through to next API URI-to-filename handler
And we get a 404 as the document does not exist at
/www/mysite/htdocs/display.do

(Using [L] at end of rule)
192.168.1.26 - - [29/Apr/2007:20:56:40 +1000] [www.mysite.com/sid#80c9038][rid#80d1ea8/initial] (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /article-9-Hes_My_Hero.dx
192.168.1.26 - - [29/Apr/2007:20:56:40 +1000] [www.mysite.com/sid#80c9038][rid#80d1ea8/initial] (3) applying pattern ‘^(.*)/article-([0-9]*)-([A-Z|a-z|0-9|-|_|/s]*)\.dx$’ to uri ‘/article-9-Hes_My_Hero.dx’
192.168.1.26 - - [29/Apr/2007:20:56:40 +1000] [www.mysite.com/sid#80c9038][rid#80d1ea8/initial] (2) rewrite /article-9-Hes_My_Hero.dx -> /display.do?title=Hes_My_Hero&pg=9
192.168.1.26 - - [29/Apr/2007:20:56:40 +1000] [www.mysite.com/sid#80c9038][rid#80d1ea8/initial] (3) split uri=/show.do?title=Hes_My_Hero&pg=9 -> uri=/display.do, args=title=Hes_My_Hero&pg=9
192.168.1.26 - - [29/Apr/2007:20:56:40 +1000] [www.mysite.com/sid#80c9038][rid#80d1ea8/initial] (2) local path result: /display.do
192.168.1.26 - - [29/Apr/2007:20:56:40 +1000] [www.mysite.com/sid#80c9038][rid#80d1ea8/initial] (2) prefixed with document_root to /www/mysite/htdocs/display.do
192.168.1.26 - - [29/Apr/2007:20:56:40 +1000] [www.mysite.com/sid#80c9038][rid#80d1ea8/initial] (1) go-ahead with /www/mysite/htdocs/display.do [OK]
(of course /www/mysite/htdocs/display.do does not exist, and I get a 404)
Why do I get those last 4 rewrites happening and how do I stop them? - that seems to be the best “solution”.

(Using [R] at the end of the rule, gets a clear redirect to the original url (display.do?page=9&title=Hes_My_Hero, which is what I’m trying to hide from the search engines).
Any ideas? I’m at my wits end about this.

Thanks a lot.
Mel.