On Sunday 20 March 2011, Christopher Howard elucidated thus:
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html
>
> What manner of sorcery is this? Methinks that only the Dark Lord
> Sauron himself would create a rewrite syntax in which conditions to
> apply rules are checked after the rules themselves. And yet they are
> placed before them in the .htaccess files. Has Saruman traded reason
> for madness?
"The great thing about mod_rewrite is it gives you all the
configurability and flexibility of Sendmail. The downside to
mod_rewrite is that it gives you all the configurability and
flexibility of Sendmail."
-- Brian Behlendorf, Apache Group
"Despite the tons of examples and docs, mod_rewrite is voodoo. Damned
cool voodoo, but still voodoo."
-- Brian Moore
Those quotes used to be here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/rewrite/
but are not longer, for some unknown reason.
j
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