Using RewriteBase

- [Voiceover] In this video we'll take a look…at the RewriteBase directive,…which sets the base URL for directory rewrites.…When using mod_rewrite in an htaccess file,…both the incoming pattern and the substitute location…are treated as relative paths.…In this example site, htaccess is in the handp folder.…So in this first RewriteRule,…the incoming pattern is looking for arrangements…or flowers in the handp folder…and if there's a match, the substitute location is either…arrangements.php or flowers.php in the same folder.…

As long as relative paths are used,…there's no need to specify RewriteBase,…but there's no harm in doing so.…The directive needs to precede the RewriteRules…and it's basically a shorthand way of creating…a site root relative link to the substitute location…in multiple RewriteRules.…So let's add it after the RewriteEngine…and before the RewriteRules.…So it's RewriteBase written all as one word.…You then follow it with the file path from the site root.…

In my testing setup, I'm using rewrite,…which is a subfolder of the local testing server root.…