Apache URL Rewriting Guide: Here’s an excellent set of mini-tutorials on mod_rewrite and the RewriteRule directive for Apache. mod_rewrite is so powerful and so flexible, that sometimes it’s hard to even comprehend the full scope of what you can do with this. This site is a start.
Say you put together a nice, static site for a client. There's a lot of CSS, a fair amount of scripting (in whatever language — we'll assume PHP here), a handful of images, and a lot of HTML. The client is going to manage the site with a…