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RewriteEngine On 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f 
RewriteRule ^/?(.+\.html) /cgi-bin/counter.py?htmlpage=$1 [L,PT,QSA] 
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# open current html template and get the page ID number 
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f = open( '/home/nikos/public_html/' + page ) 

# read first line of the file 
firstline = f.readline() 

# find the ID of the file and store it 
pin = re.match( r'<!-- (\d+) -->', firstline ).group(1) 
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