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The "RewriteContext" page has been changed by EricCovener. The comment on this change is: elaborate on my own RewriteBase misconception. http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/RewriteContext?action=diff&rev1=6&rev2=7 -------------------------------------------------- == Base URI == - The most visible change to look out for here is that in !VirtualHost (per-server) context the request URI as seen by !RewriteRule will start with a / (slash). Conversely in .htaccess or Directory (per-directory) the RewriteBase, plus a trailing slash, are stripped before the comparison to the pattern + The most visible change to look out for here is that in !VirtualHost (per-server) context the request URI as seen by !RewriteRule will start with a / (slash). Conversely in .htaccess or Directory (per-directory) the directory containing the rules, plus a trailing slash, are stripped before the comparison to the pattern. As an example, consider this basic rule to map the request for 'bar' to 'baz' for a request of /foo/bar @@ -25, +25 @@ RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/foo/bar$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/foo/baz }}} + + Note that !RewriteBase is used only to re-assemble relative subsitutions, not to strip the per-directory prefix which is always the context of the rules themselves. == Environment Variables == --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: docs-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: docs-h...@httpd.apache.org
