Hi, updated again as there was an error which caused troubles with irre. Now the solution is proper, here the rule: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.+)\.(\d+)\.(php|js|css|png|jpg|gif|gzip)$ $1.$3 [L] committed the follow-up to trunk vg Steffen