Rewrite Engine - Usage

Usage

Websites with dynamic content use URLs that generate pages from the server using query string parameters. These are often rewritten to resemble URLs for static pages on a site with a subdirectory hierarchy. For example, the URL to a wiki page might be:

http://example.com/wiki/index.php?title=Page_title

but can be rewritten as:

http://example.com/wiki/Page_title

A blog might have a URL that encodes the dates of each entry:

http://www.example.com/Blog/Posts.php?Year=2006&Month=12&Day=19

It can be altered like this:

http://www.example.com/Blog/2006/12/19/

which also allows the user to change the URL to see all postings available in December, simply by removing the text encoding the day '19', as though navigating "up" a directory:

http://www.example.com/Blog/2006/12/

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