Spent the good part of an after­noon over mod_rewrite — an after­noon that I’d really like back. The prob­lem is that my host, 1&1.co.uk, doesn’t really have a proper doc­u­ment­a­tion for mod_rewrite so you’ll spend hours, maybe even days, get­ting 500 errors until you scan the darkest depths of the Inter­net and find that you’re using code for Apache 2 and not Apache 1. Incon­veni­ently to some, this also means that you may not have all the rules that you had with Apache 2. So if you came here look­ing for answers about 1&1 and mod_rewrite then you will have just found your answer after so much frus­tra­tion that I know you’ll have had. Try the Apache 1.3 mod_rewrite doc­u­ment­a­tion for more help on mod_rewrite on 1&1.