mod_rewrite misbehaving?

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This Dreamhost support thread was started by moniker on 2009-11-09 15:01:29:

Post Reply? Hi, I’m trying to redirect requests like http://my.domain/ as follows: http://my.domain/ -> http://my.domain/sputnik.cgi?p= http://my.domain/xx -> http://my.domain/sputnik.cgi?p=xx I have .htaccess properly setup, but the rewrite rules are doing some funny things that I can’t seem to match up with what the specification says. For example, it’s mapping: http://my.domain/ -> http://my.domain/sputnik.cgi?p=sputnik.cgi http://my.domain/xx -> http://my.domain/sputnik.cgi?p=sputnik.cgi Here’s my .htaccess: Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^(.*)$ sputnik.cgi?$1 [L] From what I understand, ^(.*)$ will match the entire request and store it in $1. If so, then why does $1 always contain sptunik.cgi?

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