Hi!
I have a following code in .htaccess file:

^eng_index.html /index.php?lang=eng

At home server this works, but another server (payed hosting) apperars error. Server administrator told me that i have to use

^/eng_index.html /index.php?lang=eng

instead

Why this happened? '^' - means the beginning of string, so why i have to use '/'?

Maybe this servers' RewriteBase is not '/'?

I've found that '^/' must be used when configuring mod_rewrite from httpd.conf, and '^' when configuring from non-root directory with .htaccess