I recently switched from dreamhost hosting, to a dedicated server to host my site. I've got apache 1.3.34 (also tried 2.x) installed along with php5. I have rewrite rules declared in the .htaccess file located in the root directory of my site, and mod_rewrite is loaded. The problem seems to be that some rules are working, and some are not. For example, /code/ will rewrite to code.php, and /code/This_code_title/ will rewrite to code.php as well, even though /code/This_code_title/ should be rewriting to code.php?title=This_code_title. I've tried commenting out the entire .htaccess file, and still, /code/ will rewrite to code.php, although others, like /home/ will throw a 404, which is what I would expect after commenting out the rewrite rule. The problem seems to be with rewriting to urls that include get variables, at least that is what I've noticed. As far as why its still rewriting after I comment out all of the rewrite rules, I have no idea. Like I said, this was all working fine on another server, but with this new server, things are behaving unexpectedly. Below is my htaccess file, any help is greatly appreciated, as I've been trying to figure out this problem for a few days now.. ErrorDocument 400 /error.php ErrorDocument 401 /error.php ErrorDocument 403 /error.php ErrorDocument 404 /error.php ErrorDocument 500 /error.php RewriteEngine on #block includes, cache RewriteRule ^includes / [F] RewriteRule ^cache / [F] #redir to /home/ RewriteRule ^$ /home/ [R] #home RewriteRule ^home$ /home/ [R] RewriteRule ^home/$ index.php #code RewriteRule ^code/(\w+)$ /code/$1/ [R] RewriteRule ^code/(\w+)/$ code.php?title=$1 [R] RewriteRule ^code/viewlang/(\w+)/$ code.php?lang=$1 RewriteRule ^code/viewtag/(\w+)/$ code.php?tag=$1 RewriteRule ^code/(\w+)/(\w+)/$ code.php?title=$1&action=$2 RewriteRule ^code$ /code/ [R] RewriteRule ^code/$ code.php #gallery RewriteRule ^gallery$ /gallery/ [R] RewriteRule ^gallery/$ gallery.php RewriteRule ^gallery/tagged/(\w+)$ /gallery/tagged/$1/ [R] RewriteRule ^gallery/tagged/(\w+)/$ gallery.php?tag=$1 RewriteRule ^gallery/image/(\w+)$ /gallery/image/$1/ [R] RewriteRule ^gallery/image/(\w+)/$ gallery.php?image=$1 RewriteRule ^gallery/(\w+)$ /gallery/$1/ [R] RewriteRule ^gallery/(\w+)/$ gallery.php?gallery=$1 #links RewriteRule ^links$ /links/ [R] RewriteRule ^links/$ links.php #feeds RewriteRule ^feed$ /feed/ [R] RewriteRule ^feed/$ feed.php RewriteRule ^feed/(\w+)$ /feed/$1/ [R] RewriteRule ^feed/(\w+)/$ feeds.php?feed=$1 #blog RewriteRule ^blog$ /blog/ [R] RewriteRule ^blog/$ blog.php RewriteRule ^blog/(\w+)$ /blog/$1/ [R] RewriteRule ^blog/(.+)/$ blog.php?post=$1 #search RewriteRule ^search$ /search/ [R] RewriteRule ^search/(.*)$ search.php$1 #projects RewriteRule ^projects$ /projects/ [R] RewriteRule ^projects/$ projects.php RewriteRule ^projects/tagged/(\w+)$ /projects/$1/ [R] RewriteRule ^projects/tagged/(.+)/$ projects.php?tag=$1 RewriteRule ^projects/(\w+)$ /projects/$1/ [R] RewriteRule ^projects/(.+)/$ projects.php?post=$1 #downloads RewriteRule ^downloads$ /downloads/ [R] RewriteRule ^downloads/$ downloads.php RewriteRule ^downloads/tagged/(\w+)$ /downloads/$1/ [R] RewriteRule ^downloads/tagged/(.+)/$ downloads.php?tag=$1 RewriteRule ^downloads/(\w+)$ /downloads/$1/ [R] RewriteRule ^downloads/(.+)/$ downloads.php?post=$1 #contact me RewriteRule ^contact$ /contact/ [R] RewriteRule ^contact/ contact.php #tagged RewriteRule ^tagged$ /tagged/ [R] RewriteRule ^tagged/$ tagged.php RewriteRule ^tagged/(\w+)$ /tagged/$1/ [R] RewriteRule ^tagged/(\w+)/$ tagged.php?section=$1 RewriteRule ^tagged/(\w+)/(\w+)$ /tagged/$1/$2/ [R] RewriteRule ^tagged/(\w+)/(\w+)/$ tagged.php?section=$1&tag=$2 #admin RewriteRule ^admin$ /admin/ [R] RewriteRule ^admin/$ /admin.php RewriteRule ^admin/(\w+)$ /admin/$1/ [R] RewriteRule ^admin/(\w+)/$ /admin.php?action=$1 RewriteRule ^admin/(\w+)/(\w+)/$ /admin.php?action=$1&info=$2 Code (markup):