andreasfriedrich - 11:39 am on Sep 15, 2002 (gmt 0)

Hi Randy and welcome to Webmaster World [webmasterworld.com].

As shown in post #77 [webmasterworld.com] putting your RewriteRules in httpd.conf is indeed faster and the way to go when you have access to it.

However, this will not solve the problem of applying those rules to all virtual servers. You cannot just put the rewriting code in the main section and expect it to work for all virtual servers. For an explanation on this see API Phases [httpd.apache.org] in the mod_rewrite URL Rewriting Engine documentation.

So, after [...] Apache has determined the corresponding server (or virtual server) the rewriting engine starts processing of all mod_rewrite directives from the per-server configuration in the URL-to-filename phase.

my emphasis

There´s also a thread How (and Where) best to control access [webmasterworld.com] that you might want to read on this topic. If you have mod_perl you might want to use the solution mentioned in this thread. Ask carfac [webmasterworld.com] for the modified version of BlockAgent.

And as a sidenote. Do not drop any URLs. Do not use a signature.