I was converting some mod_rewrite rules from the Lighttpd webserver to Apache today.
While Lighttpd and Apache both have request rewriting modules with pretty equivalent functionality, there are some significant differences nonetheless. Specifically, I was trying to rewrite a URL of the form:
/script?key=123abcxyz
to a file on the local disk:
/abc/123/123abcxyz
In Lighttpd, I had a single rewrite [...]
