title: Exact match with RewriteRule without regex
body: <p>I have the following htacces to rewrite a precise URL (views/index.php to views/index.xml):</p>
  
  <pre><code>RewriteEngine On
  RewriteRule ^/views/index\.php$ /views/index.xml [L]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It's way too easy to forget the <code>\</code> and type <code>^/views/index.php$</code>, allowing <em>/views/indexXphp</em> and <em>/views/index/php</em> instead of only <em>/views/index.php</em>.</p>
  
  <p>Using an exact match instead of a regex is fine for my case, so would be a way to tell Apache that <em>for all RewriteRules below / for this RewriteRule, the dot means a . not any character so the dot is not escaped</em>.</p>
  
  <p>So, <strong>is there a way to have the exact match <em>/views/index.php</em> without the need to escape the dot?</strong></p>