How to assign RewriteRule without RegEx?

Question

Me need configure exact match with RewriteRule without regex. Using an exact match instead of a regex is fine for my case. How I can to setup exact value for Apache mod_rewrite RewriteRule directive without use regular expressions?

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rewriterule without regular expressions
rewriterule without regex

Answer 1

In Apache mod_rewrite rules there is way you can use RewriteCond to make it match literal strings without regular expressions using equals sign (=) before matching patten like this:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} =/views/index.php
RewriteRule ^ /views/index.xml [L]

Space after caret symbol (^) is necessary, because we still use two parameters in RewriteRule Apache mod_rewrite directive.