Apache mod_rewrite: RewriteCond and RewriteRule
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This Apache documentation for mod_rewrite are clear and comprehensive. This page does not intend to replace nor replicate the official documentation. However, some for of example-based tutorial may be helpful for some beginners to get them started. The examples below need to be completed and better annotated.
Let's start with the easiest example:
Let's say we want to redirect "home" to "/".
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule home / [redirect,last] # This example will not give the intended result!!
</IfModule>The syntax is:
RewriteRule Pattern Substitution [flags]where the
Pattern is a perl compatible regular expression.It means that in the example above, not only "home" will be redirected to "/", but also "home2", "home_owner" and "nice_homes"!
To get the intended result, you have to match the Pattern with the whole requested path with the proper regular expression:
RewriteRule ^home$ / [redirect,last]RewriteRule is fully documented here: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriterule
The flags [redirect,last] are fully documented here: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/rewrite/flags.html
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ script.fcgi/$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>