Hey Conor,

thanks as always for your prompt reply. I understand why you say that it is not a Ceon thing but at the same time the only rewriting on the site is that group of rules. It's a bit weird.

Anyway, pragmatism eventually ruled the day and I changed the rules to:

Code:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.starlessriver\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.starlessriver.com/shop/$1 [L,R=301]
In other words added the directory in at that stage. Works fine - even though I am not sure why I had to do this and the rules actually seem wrong - ah well....

Thanks for your time

Nick