title: RewriteRule ^ - [L] AKA RewriteRule caret dash L
body: <p>While I could turn on Rewrite Logging and mess with this rule to figure out what it does (if anything), I bet someone already knows.  Here's the rule by itself:</p>
  
  <pre><code>RewriteRule ^ - [L]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here it is in context:</p>
  
  <pre><code>RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
  RewriteRule ^ - [L]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I guess it means "Match Everything".  I'd have thought that "Match Everything" would be a dot to make it more obvious that there is no missing code, and that regexp would error out if the caret was the only thing in it.  So I see the outside chance that it means something else.</p>