Dear Perl Monks,

I am a newbie in Perl, Apache. On Apache (using XAMPP), I am trying to rewrite URIs in .htaccess file as follows:

RewriteEngine On<br>
RewriteRule ^index.html$ about.html  #this works<br>
Redirect 301 ^index.html$ about.html #this does not work<br>
RewriteRule ^http://localhost/sample/prog.pl?q=param:A;pageoffset=10$ 
+http://localhost/sample/prog.pl?q=param:B;pageoffset=20 #this does no
+t work<br><br>

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I am not sure what the mistake is for the two rewrites that don't work, as shown above. Please advise.

Thanks for this super cool wesbite!

In reply to rewriting of URIs by gkbk

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