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Asked: 2026-05-18T10:03:44+00:00

I often see in PHP MVC applications an Apache RewriteRule that looks like this:

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I often see in PHP MVC applications an Apache RewriteRule that looks like this:

RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]

The Apache docs for the RewriteRule directive states:

A dash indicates that no substitution
should be performed (the existing path
is passed through untouched). This is
used when a flag (see below) needs to
be applied without changing the path.

So from what I gather, you can use this to transform a path using a flag i.e [NC] for the RewriteRules to follow?

Could someone please explain this dash RewriteRule a little better?

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  1. Editorial Team

    See this answer:

    mod_rewrite: what does this RewriteRule do?

    It essentially means “do nothing if the previous RewriteConds match”. The next RewriteRule(s) will instead do something else when the RewriteConds don’t match. In the case of the post i linked you to, the next RewriteRule rewrites the url including “index.php”.

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