# rewrite engine

> software component that performs rewriting on Uniform Resource Locators, modifying their appearance. This modification is called URL rewriting. It is a way of implementing URL mapping or routing within a web application

**Wikidata**: [Q1188382](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1188382)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rewrite_engine)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/rewrite-engine


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013