that’s my stapler

Widge, See the Apache docs on RewriteRule. Your rule RewriteRule ^(.+)\\.html http://www.needcoffee.com/html/$1.htm [r=301,nc] says to match using ^(.+)\\.html (Beginning of URI, one or more characters until we hit a \ (presumably counts as backslash or slash here?) ending in .html, and store the “one or more characters” part for later use in a backreference. Having [...]