[BNM] Rewriting b*tard back-to-front slashes

[Jay Caines-Gooby]

On 11/27/06, Jay Caines-Gooby <jay at gooby.org> wrote:

> Thanks Dom,
>
> Didn't work but got me part way there.
>
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteRule (.*)\\(.*) $1/$2 [N,NE]
>
> Works on Apache 1.3 (not sure that I need the NE, but I didn't want
> the slashes getting URL escaped).
>
> Doesn't work on Apache2 though :(
>
> I get:
>
> RewriteRule: cannot compile regular expression '(.*)\\(.*)'
>
> in the error log. Bah.

RewriteBase /
RewriteRule (.*)\\(.*) $1/$2 [L,R,NE]

Did the trick on Apache2. I can't believe how long this has taken me
to sort out :(

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