Hi

Thanks for the clarification I was getting a bit lost with all the different variants I was trying... It now seems to work pretty well

As I was saying I hadn't understood the inherent catch on build_url domain and how elements drilling down within that folder where also up for catch ;)
So thanks for explaining that.

I did, like pudog explains, have to update all the urls in the update_others part in order to get it working but believe it or not I'd figured that out last night (well impressed with myself ).

I also set up a <%site_url%> value that I use to precede any html files that need to be redirected via this rewrite :

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)\.html /cgi-bin/page.cgi?p=$1 [L]

example http://www.domain.com/home.html or http://www.domain.com/toppopular.html (Laura's stats plug-in trend ranking)

Instead of <%build_root_url%>/toppopular.html I just use <%site_url%>/toppopular.html otherwise if I use the build_root_url I obviously end up with :

http://www.domain.com/mag/toppopular.html
which is redirected to /cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=$1 instead of /cgi-bin/page.cgi?p=$1

Also as you stated in your mail by adding the pass though option it enables me to use the code in my httpd.conf file whereas before I was having to use .htaccess files which I agree with pugdog is far less interesting for organizing everything from one place...

Thanks ever so much for all this feedback

I'm not sure it's a home run yet but I'm well on the way with all this help !

Thanks, John
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