Translations:Manual:Short URL/Apache/31/en

The  directive may be invoked in both the   file and in any   file, but when the rewrite rule appears in .htaccess files, the implicit per-directory context affects the rule's   because rules are relative to the current directory. In .htaccess files, Patterns are not relative to the complete, original URI. For .htaccess files, Patterns should never start with a forward slash,, because the URI sub-string will never begin with a. The examples that follow use the  flag whose meaning is Stop the rewriting process immediately, and don't apply any more rules.