[ILUG-Webdev] mod_rewrite help!

[Donncha O Caoimh]

I'm updating blogs.linux.ie with the code from the release on Sunday, but I'm 
running into problems with mod_rewrite that worked fine at home on a Red Hat 
8.0 box that now don't work on Debian.

I have the following in the .htaccess
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)b2-img/(.*) b2-img/$2 [L]  # b2 images
RewriteRule ^templates/(.*) users/root/templates/$1 [L]  # default template
RewriteRule ^(.*)templates/(.*) users/$1/templates/$2 [L]  # user templates
RewriteRule .* PATH/redirect.php [L]  # generic redirect handler

The word PATH gets replaced by the filesystem path to that file when 
installing. 
What this does:
If you request http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/b2-img/xml.gif it actually sends 
http://blogs.linux.ie/b2-img/xml.gif to you.
If you request http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/templates/site.css it'll send 
http://blogs.linux.ie/users/xeer/templates/site.css to you instead.
If you request http://blogs.linux.ie/templates/site.css it'll send 
http://blogs.linux.ie/users/root/templates/site.css to you instead.

Otherwise, it feeds every other request to redirect.php
I tried the above code on blogs.linux.ie but the browser just kept loading. 
(and now there's lots of apache processes stuck/running, damn..)

When I put the path in front of "b2-img/$2 [L]" I was able to view images in 
there, but when I did the same for templates it didn't work.

Anyone know how to fix this?

Donncha.