This is what I do:

# ignore all images, css, etc
RewriteRule ^.*\.(gif|png|jpg|css|wav|avi|mpg)$ - [NC,L]
# don't rewrite the path if its already been rewritten
RewriteCond %(REQUEST_URI) !^.*dynamic.*$ [NC]
# else, do it
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dynamic/$1 [L]
## end ##


This is for running with SCGI, not as CGI. On my Win2K development / test
box, I run CGI and have it configured as:

# make sure the uri isn't already rewritten, or isn't an image etc
# pass through images, audio, video, and css files without modification
RewriteRule ^.*\.(gif|png|jpg|css|wav|avi|mpg)$  - [NC,L]
#
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/cgidriver.py(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$   /cgidriver.py$1 [L]

At 09:25 PM 5/21/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm curious about your RewriteRule recommendations. In the demo.txt you've
>got:
>
>     RewriteRule ^/qdemo(/.*) /www/cgi-bin/demo.cgi$1 [l]
>
>First, shouldn't the option be [L] or [last]? You used [last] in the
>web-server.txt file. I don't recall seeing a single lowercase "l" in the
>Apache docs, but I could be wrong.
>
>Second, most of the examples in the Apache docs look more like this:
>
>     RewriteRule ^/qdemo/(.*) /www/cgi-bin/demo.cgi/$1 [last]
>
>That's the pattern I used in my .htaccess file and it works fine. But I'm
>wondering if one is better than the other. I don't claim to be an Apache
>expert by any means, so I'd like to make sure I'm not overlooking anything.
>Your thoughts?
>
>---
>Patrick K. O'Brien
>Orbtech
>
>
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