On Sun, 2017-02-19 at 20:27 +0300, Marat Khalili wrote: > "When not to use mod_rewrite" page was probably written by people > frustrated with too many examples of incorrect mod_rewrite > configurations in this forum. Actually it was largely written by the same people who wrote the mod_rewrite documentation. Twenty years ago, mod_rewrite was a fantastic tool: powerful and versatile. Today it's even more powerful and versatile. But it's also a horrendously *bad* way to accomplish most things: in non-trivial cases, it's commonly used as a hacked-up scripting language comprisising just two main instructions (single IF aka RewriteCond, and GOTO aka RewriteRule) with side-effects. Which is why we recommend rationalising away from those ancient mod_rewrite hacks that were once the only way to accomplish something but are now obsolete. By analogy, when I got my first programming job in the 1980s, there was still lots of ancient FORTRAN around, from before the FORTRAN-77 standard brought block structure to that language. We newbies were NOT encouraged to write old-style spaghetti code. -- Nick Kew --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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