REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING weirdness ... redirecting from one file to another

Hi, I would like any file under the root of a certain domain name to redirect to a PHP template file. For instance, I would like a request for /services/ to redirect to http://myhost/index.php?path=/services/ . This is similar to what PHP.Net does with their function lookup shortcut (where you can go to http://php.net/function-name instead of the longer equivalent.) I have it set up with mod_rewrite as follows: RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^(.+) /path/to/index.php?path=$1 [L] The only problem is that Apache is considering this a redirect, and is thus overwriting my $1 with the name of the current file (index.php.) The only place I can find the original file is HTTP_SERVER_VARS["REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING"]. Is there a way to pull out the name of the original file without going through extracting $HTTP_SERVER_VARS and the like? BTW, I know there was a post on how PHP.Net did the function shortcut a while back. If someone can post a link to that again, I'd be grateful. I can't seem to find it. Thanks! Erica