If the format is matched, the rule is considered

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TRUE and will then perform the rewrite (hidden from the visitor). For those who want to understand more specifics about the syntax used in this section, it uses Regular Expressions syntax to build the rules. If you intend to write your own custom rules, it will be beneficial to understand the basics of regular expressions syntax. Removing the sections within [square brackets], you are left with: ^([]+)/([]+)/?$ The carat in the beginning and the dollar sign at the end mark that this the start of the URL after the base domain (www.


Example.com/). At the end of the section, the russia email list re is a forward slash and question mark /? that represents that the URL may or may not end in a single forward slash. Finally, there are two sections surrounded by parenthesis, separated by the forward slash that exists between 'products' and 'zhu-zhu-pets' in our example. The parenthesis mark what will be replaced in the Target section (coming up next). Within the brackets in our example, the valid characters are defined.




[A-Za-z0-9] represents all uppercase and lowercase English characters and all digits zero through nine. [A-Za-z0-9-] represents all uppercase & lowercase English characters, all digits 0 through 9, and the hyphen. Immediately after the square brackets is a plus sign, which means that there needs to be one or more of all the characters present. The Target URL The target makes use of the sections in parenthesis found in part one. From left to right, each section in parenthesis is assigned a numeric variable to take whatever was entered by the visitor into the URL and place it into the target.