directives). For historical reasons the conditions are given
first, and so the control flow is a little bit long-winded. See
Figure 1 for more details.</p>
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<img src="../images/mod_rewrite_fig1.gif" border="1" width="428"
height="385" alt="[Needs graphics capability to display]" />
<p><strong>Figure 1:</strong>The control flow through the rewriting ruleset</p>
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<p>As you can see, first the URL is matched against the
<em>Pattern</em> of each rule. When it fails mod_rewrite
immediately stops processing this rule and continues with the
Figure 2 shows to which locations the back-references are
transfered for expansion.</p>
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<img src="../images/mod_rewrite_fig2.gif" border="1" width="381"
height="179" alt="[Needs graphics capability to display]" />
<p><strong>Figure 2:</strong> The back-reference flow through a rule.</p>
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<p>We know this was a crash course on mod_rewrite's internal
processing. But you will benefit from this knowledge when
reading the following documentation of the available