File globbing is a feature provided by the UNIX/Linux shell to represent multiple filenames by using special characters called wildcards with a single file name. A wildcard is essentially a symbol which may be used to substitute for one or more characters. Therefore, we can use wildcards for generating the appropriate combination of file names as per our requirement.
The bash shell provides three characters to use as wildcards:
Asterisk (*) to represent 0 or more characters
Question mark (?) to represent exactly one character
Square brackets ([]) to represent and match for the character enclosed within the square brackets.
The mod_rewrite module is enabled by default on CentOS 7. If you find it is not enabled on your server, you can enable it by editing 00-base.conf file located in /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/ directory.
vi/etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/00-base.conf
Add or uncomment the following line
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
Service httpd restart
