Are there any special installation instructions? Only I uploaded into Mod directory and enabled in tools and now I got no site! Is it only compatible with 1.7.3?

Just tested the a-z only pattern and the [NC,L] arguments and it's much faster.

Sorry, meant \ not /.

Back again! It seems my problem is with the | (pipe) character. So I've got round it with 2 Rewriterules, which works well: RewriteRule ^site([A-Za-z]+)\.xml siteindex/siteindex.php?m=$1&g=$2RewriteRule ^site([A-Za-z]+)\.xml\.gz...

I don't know how this helps but I've narrowed down the cause of the error. If I delete the part (|.gz) the error does not occur. Does that mean that the script would work but would not produce gz compressed files? I currently searching madly for...

Now I think I've got a pretty good understanding of the RewriteRule syntax and can't for the life of me see why the server is complaining. It's just unhappy with the modified .htaccess file and there is no reason why this should happen. Asked...

Most excellent! Have followed php tutorial and used an example of gzencode() function. Have successfully proven that gzencode works on my hosting server! Successfully compressed and expanded a file! Now I'll work on the RewriteRule.