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Started filling in some of the details of an introduction to rewriting 

URLs.


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docs/manual/rewrite/rewrite_intro.html.en

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</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>

<div class="section">

<h2><a name="regex" id="regex">Regular Expressions</a></h2>

<p>Basic regex building blocks</p>



<p>mod_rewrite uses the <a href="http://pcre.org/">Perl Compatible

Regular Expression</a> vocabulary. In this document, we do not attempt

to provide a detailed reference to regular expressions. For that, we

recommend the <a href="http://pcre.org/pcre.txt">PCRE man pages</a>, the

<a href="http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlre.html">Perl regular

expression man page</a>, and <a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex2/index.html">Mastering

Regular Expressions, by Jeffrey Friedl</a>.</p>



<p>In this document, we attempt to provide enough of a regex vocabulary

to get you started, without being overwhelming, in the hope that

<code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriterule">RewriteRule</a></code>s will be scientific

formulae, rather than magical incantations.</p>



<h3><a name="regexvocab" id="regexvocab">Regex vocabulary</a></h3>



<p>The following are the minimal building blocks you will need, in order

to write regular expressions and <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriterule">RewriteRule</a></code>s.</p>



<table>

<tr>

<th>Character</th>

<th>Meaning</th>

</tr>



<tr><td><code>.</code></td><td>Matches any character</td></tr>



</table>







<h3><a name="InternalBackRefs" id="InternalBackRefs">Regex Back-Reference Availability</a></h3>
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</p>









</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>

<div class="section">

<h2><a name="rewriterule" id="rewriterule">RewriteRule basics</a></h2>

docs/manual/rewrite/rewrite_intro.xml

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</section>



<section id="regex"><title>Regular Expressions</title>

<p>Basic regex building blocks</p>



<p>mod_rewrite uses the <a href="http://pcre.org/">Perl Compatible

Regular Expression</a> vocabulary. In this document, we do not attempt

to provide a detailed reference to regular expressions. For that, we

recommend the <a href="http://pcre.org/pcre.txt">PCRE man pages</a>, the

<a href="http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlre.html">Perl regular

expression man page</a>, and <a

href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex2/index.html">Mastering

Regular Expressions, by Jeffrey Friedl</a>.</p>



<p>In this document, we attempt to provide enough of a regex vocabulary

to get you started, without being overwhelming, in the hope that

<directive module="mod_rewrite">RewriteRule</directive>s will be scientific

formulae, rather than magical incantations.</p>



<section id="regexvocab"><title>Regex vocabulary</title>



<p>The following are the minimal building blocks you will need, in order

to write regular expressions and <directive

module="mod_rewrite">RewriteRule</directive>s.</p>



<table>

<tr>

<th>Character</th>

<th>Meaning</th>

</tr>



<tr><td><code>.</code></td><td>Matches any character</td></tr>



</table>



</section>



<section id="InternalBackRefs"><title>Regex Back-Reference Availability</title>
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</p>



</section>





</section>



<section id="rewriterule"><title>RewriteRule basics</title>