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copied!<p>The parts of the rewrite rule break down as follows:</p> <ol> <li><p>RewriteRule <br /> Indicates this line will be a rewrite rule, as opposed to a rewrite condition or one of the other rewrite engine directives</p></li> <li><p>^(.*)$ <br /> Matches all characters <code>(.*)</code> from the beggining <code>^</code> to the end <code>$</code> of the request</p></li> <li><p>/index.php/$1 <br /> The request will be re-written with the data matched by <code>(.*)</code> in the previous example being substituted for <code>$1</code>.</p></li> <li><p>[L] <br /> This tells mod_rewrite that if the pattern in step 2 matches, apply this rule as the "Last" rule, and don't apply anymore.</p></li> </ol> <p>The <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">mod_rewrite documentation</a> is really comprehensive, but admittedly a lot to wade through to decode such a simple example.</p> <p>The net effect is that all requests will be routed through <code>index.php</code>, a pattern seen in many model-view-controller implementations for PHP. <code>index.php</code> can examine the requested URL segments (and potentially whether the request was made via GET or POST) and use this information to dynamically invoke a certain script, without the location of that script having to match the directory structure implied by the request URI.</p> <p>For example, <code>/users/john/files/index</code> might invoke the function <code>index('john')</code> in a file called <code>user_files.php</code> stored in a scripts directory. Without mod_rewrite, the more traditional URL would probably use an arguably less readable query string and invoke the file directly: <code>/user_files.php?action=index&user=john</code>.</p>

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