The article is very educational, but there is one thing to clarify in my opinion : put the rewrite rules in the .htaccess file is an easy way in development environment, but in production it’s better to put these rules in apache configuration file and disable the use of .htaccess files, otherwise the .htaccess file will be read whenever a user accesses a webpage. (and even several times if images, css or js also have rules).
Nicolas Chevallier
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The article is very educational, but there is one thing to clarify in my opinion : put the rewrite rules in the .htaccess file is an easy way in development environment, but in production it’s better to put these rules in apache configuration file and disable the use of .htaccess files, otherwise the .htaccess file will be read whenever a user accesses a webpage. (and even several times if images, css or js also have rules).