----.htaccess in /var/www/something--- RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^([a-f0-9].+)$ /rewrite.php?id=$1 [L] -----VHOST CONFIG----- ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost ServerName something.de ServerAlias www.something.de DocumentRoot /var/www/something Options All AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, # alert, emerg. LogLevel warn RewriteLog /var/log/apache2/rewrite.log RewriteLogLevel 9 CustomLog /var/log/apache2/something-access.log combined ServerSignature On