The most confusing thing is when you use the perl script on the official apache site here it's written for the NDBM format (which isn't available on my box). Here's the perl script: #!/path/to/bin/perl ## ## txt2dbm -- convert txt map to dbm format ## use NDBM_File; use Fcntl; ...

RewriteEngine On RewriteMap redirects txt:/home/.../.../rewriterules.map RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ${redirects:$1|$1} [R,L,NC] How does it work? (See here for details.) The first line turns on mod_rewrite. The next line sets the location of the map file (the two column list of source/destina...