web/**/.htaccess: Restrict redirection only of fully-existing paths, rather than of any path whose subdir exists, in order to avoid having to hardcode the absolute path to the directory containing the .htaccess file. This more restrictive approach still works because if the subdir exists and contains an .htaccess file, this (outer) .htaccess file's RewriteRules will be ignored completely until the inner .htaccess file's rules have been run, so that any subdir redirects will happen first. This "hole-punch" effect causes an existing filesystem path to always take priority over a virtual path (i.e. a redirect) defined in an outer .htaccess file.
web/**/.htaccess: Restrict redirection only of fully-existing paths, rather than of any path whose subdir exists, in order to avoid having to hardcode the absolute path to the directory containing the .htaccess file. This more restrictive approach still works because if the subdir exists and contains an .htaccess file, this (outer) .htaccess file's RewriteRules will be ignored completely until the inner .htaccess file's rules have been run, so that any subdir redirects will happen first. This "hole-punch" effect causes an existing filesystem path to always take priority over a virtual path (i.e. a redirect) defined in an outer .htaccess file.