URL rewriting - Beginners guide

Question

I need to learn how to do URL rewriting for a site to get pretty URLs...

I have a general idea of how it works through the 50 tutorials I read. But none of them really

Answer 1

Check if you're requesting a existing file using a (negative)RewriteCond using flags -f and/or -d. Used in many tutorials, check the topmost results at any search engine.