I just spent, not three days but a very frustrating three hours working with RewriteRules.

I found tons of cut-and-paste examples and so-called tutorials, but they were all pretty bad. They tell you to put Options +FollowSymLinks but they don't say why, so it could be cargo cult. They tell you to use RewriteBase / but not why, or if it's optional, and so on.

If anyone knows a good tutorial on the subject, I'd love to hear about it.