: What's the "^" in RewriteRule Statements? I keep seeing the ^ character in RewriteRule statements in a context that doesn't fit with the usage specified in this document about regular expressions.

I keep seeing the ^ character in RewriteRule statements in a context that doesn't fit with the usage specified in this document about regular expressions.

For example: RewriteRule ^(.*)$ .php [L,QSA]

What does it signify?

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@Candy875

It means "this matches the start of the string". So in your example the rule does the rewrite if there's

the start of the string (^)
any character (.)
any number of the previous character (*)
the end of the string ($)

In other words, this whole expression matches any string.

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