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Once again I must say: kudos Judebert! Thanks for the very good explanation. And most of all: your patience.

I thought I read in the manual of WP that it doesn't need/use .htaccess for SEF url's, but that obvious was a mistake

My lay-out however is as follows:

/var/www <-- serendipity resides here
/var/www/other
/var/www/anotherdir

(etc).

In this lay-out I found out I *do* have to add the .htaccess because as soon as I turned on the mod_rewrite option in S9y, every url outside the root started to redirect to S9y...

Thanks for the kind words. That's what I'm here for... when I'm here. Sigh.

In the directory structure you use, everything is in a subdirectory under Serendipity, so Serendipity's .htaccess will be used unless you provide another one. As you've discovered. Of course, you could also use <Directory> sections in the server configuration instead, but in general we consider this way too much trouble for personal sites.

Ok,well basically I will have to learn to live with .htaccess files. I made one just like you pointed out and I just use it in every directory that needs to be on its own.

Thanks for the excellent help: the fact that I usually get some form of answer withing a few days is one of the reasons why I haven't switched to any other blog software yet.

You guys are most helpful.