Question

Can anyone explain what this mod_rewrite rule is doing?

I’m trying to comment the file, but the code seems to state the opposite of what I think it’s doing

# Enable rewriting of URLs RewriteEngine on   # Allow specified file types to be accessed # Thing to test = URL # Condition = not starting with   RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|css|js|robots\.txt)   # RewriteRule will only be performed if the preceeding RewriteCond is fulfilled # Remove index.php from all URLs      # Pattern = anything (0 or more of any character) # Substitution = index.php + the rest of the URL     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]   

Answer 1

^ = begin of line ( = begin group .* = any character, any number of times ) = end group 

The $1 in the second part is replaced by the group in the first part.

Is this a Symfony rule? The idea is to pass the whole query string to the index.php (the front controller) as a parameter, so that the front controller can parse and route it.