As far as I know, the only reason Passenger disables mod_rewrite is because if they didn't the .htaccess file that ships with Rails would cause every request to

As far as I know, the only reason Passenger disables mod_rewrite is because if they didn't the .htaccess file that ships with Rails would cause every request to use CGI instead of Passenger. See here for details: http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide.html#conflicting_apache_modules http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide.html#con... We are using Passenger + mod_rewrite where I work with no problems.