mod_rewrite <http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html#quoting> - Apache HTTP Server documentation says :
special characters in TestString and Substitution strings can be escaped (that is, treated as normal characters without their usual special meaning) by prefixing them with a slash ('\') character It should rather say: special characters in TestString and Substitution strings can be escaped (that is, treated as normal characters without their usual special meaning) by prefixing them with a backslash ('\') character Please fix.