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July 30, 2014 at 12:06 am
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%{THE_REQUEST} is an Apache variable. Its value is the actual request line* from the HTTP request, unchanged by any rewrites (which is the reason it does not cause a redirect loop).
* for example:
GET /index.html HTTP/1.1
\w- is actually - (a dash) and \w (a “word” character; meaning alphanumerics or an underscore). Put together, [\w-] is just a shorter, more succinct way to write [a-zA-Z0-9_-].
%1 is a numbered backreference, just like $1 would be. The difference is that % backreferences refer to capture groups in RewriteConds, while $ backreferences refer to capture groups in RewriteRules.
