I have sent this email on the httpd email list and receive no answer for a few days so I am opening this feature request. I have project who run with a single FrontController which means all routes are dynamic and sent to a single PHP page. While we might debate if this is a good idea or not, I find it extremely powerful for multi-lingual website without having to duplicate file structure. One problem I am having is overwriting PHP values. Because I mod_rewrite, Apache seems to lose track of the location and it's impossible to overwrite at this level. See details here: https://serverfault.com/questions/857961/php-value-overrides-with-apache-using-a-front-controller Originally I thought it was better to do the fix on the PHP side but apparently those restriction are in place because of security/chain of events reasons. See details here: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=74882 Would this be something that Apache could fix? Maybe new <Location> rules applied before mod_rewrite?