More in hope that expectation ... having spend half a day + getting nowhere ... I want to rewrite http://www.subdomain.domain.com/ to http://www.subdomain.domain.com/?id=blah Just the one simple url rewrite, no matching expressions or anything, with an index.php file in root of subdomain This is one of my last dying attempts Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \/index.php\ HTTP RewriteRule index.php index.php\?id=blah [L,R=301] Code (markup): Any help at all ... At the moment the browser just coughs and gives up