What does 1 QSA L mean in my htaccess file

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I need to change my  htaccess and there are two lines which I don t understand   RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -l  RewriteRule        index php url  1  QSA L    When I should use these lines

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This will capture requests for files like version  release  and README md  etc  which should be treated either as endpoints  if defined  as in the case of  release   or as  not found

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Not the place to give a complete tutorial  but here it is in short   RewriteCond basically means  execute the next RewriteRule only if this is true   The  -l path is the condition that the request is not for a link    means not  -l means link   The RewriteRule basically means that if the request is done that matches         matches any URL except the server root   it will be rewritten as index php url  1 which means a request for ollewill be rewritten as index php url olle    QSA means that if there s a query string passed with the original URL  it will be appended to the rewrite  olle p 1 will be rewritten as index php url olle amp p 1   L means if the rule matches  don t process any more RewriteRules below this one   For more complete info on this  follow the links above  The rewrite support can be a bit hard to grasp  but there are quite a few examples on stackoverflow to learn from

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If the following conditions are true  then rewrite the URL   If the requested filename is not a directory   RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -d   and if the requested filename is not a regular file that exists   RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -f   and if the requested filename is not a symbolic link   RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -l   then rewrite the URL in the following way  Take the whole request filename and provide it as the value of a  url  query parameter to index php  Append any query string from the original URL as further query parameters  QSA   and stop processing this  htaccess file  L    RewriteRule        index php url  1  QSA L      Apache docs  flag qsa  Another Example   RewriteRule   pages         page php page  1   QSA    With the  QSA  flag  a request for       pages 123 one two   will be mapped to       page php page 123 amp one two

[.htaccess] What does $1 [QSA,L] mean in my .htaccess file?

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