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authorDaniel Gruno <humbedooh@apache.org>2012-05-04 15:16:50 +0000
committerDaniel Gruno <humbedooh@apache.org>2012-05-04 15:16:50 +0000
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Backporting syntax highlighting and igalic's ssl changes for mod_r|s*.xml
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diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml b/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml
index 6dc853f500..7ba1eddd3f 100644
--- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml
@@ -69,7 +69,9 @@ URLs on the fly</description>
</note>
<example><title>Example</title>
+ <highlight language="config">
LogLevel alert rewrite:trace3
+ </highlight>
</example>
<note><title>RewriteLog</title>
@@ -234,16 +236,16 @@ Apache HTTP Server 2.0.41 and later</compatibility>
<p>For example, you might define a
<directive>RewriteMap</directive> as:</p>
- <example>
+ <highlight language="config">
RewriteMap examplemap txt:/path/to/file/map.txt
- </example>
+ </highlight>
<p>You would then be able to use this map in a
<directive>RewriteRule</directive> as follows:</p>
- <example>
+ <highlight language="config">
RewriteRule ^/ex/(.*) ${examplemap:$1}
- </example>
+ </highlight>
<p>The following combinations for <em>MapType</em> and
<em>MapSource</em> can be used:</p>
@@ -293,42 +295,38 @@ Apache HTTP Server 2.0.41 and later</compatibility>
<override>FileInfo</override>
<usage>
- <p>The <directive>RewriteBase</directive> directive explicitly
- sets the base URL-path (not filesystem directory path!) for per-directory rewrites
- that result in the substitution of a relative path.
- When you use a <directive module="mod_rewrite">RewriteRule</directive>
- in a <code>.htaccess</code> file, <module>mod_rewrite</module> strips off
- the local directory prefix before processing, then rewrites the rest of
- the URL. When the rewrite is completed, <module>mod_rewrite</module>
- automatically adds the local directory prefix (or the
- <directive>RewriteBase</directive> when set) back on to the substitution
- before handing it back to the core of the server as if it were the original
- URL.</p>
-
- <p>This directive is <em>required</em> for per-directory rewrites whose context
- is a directory made available via the <directive module="mod_alias">Alias</directive>
- directive, when the substitution uses a relative path.</p>
-
- <p>If your URL path does not exist verbatim on the filesystem,
- or isn't directly under your <directive module="core">DocumentRoot</directive>,
- you must use <directive>RewriteBase</directive> in every
- <code>.htaccess</code> file where you want to use <directive
- module="mod_rewrite">RewriteRule</directive> directives.</p>
-
- <p>The example below demonstrates how to map
- http://example.com/myapp/index.html to
- /home/www/example/newsite.html, in a <code>.htaccess</code> file. This
- assumes that the content available at
- http://example.com/ is on disk at /home/www/example/</p>
-<example>
-<pre>
-RewriteEngine On
-# The URL-path used to get to this context, not the filesystem path
-RewriteBase /myapp/
-RewriteRule ^index\.html$ newsite.html
-</pre>
-</example>
+ <p>The <directive>RewriteBase</directive> directive specifies the
+ URL prefix to be used for per-directory (htaccess)
+ <directive>RewriteRule</directive> directives that substitute a relative
+ path.</p>
+ <p> This directive is <em>required</em> when you use a relative path
+ in a substitution in per-directory (htaccess) context unless either
+ of the following conditions are true:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li> The original request, and the substitution, are underneath the
+ <directive module="core">DocumentRoot</directive>
+ (as opposed to reachable by other means, such as
+ <directive module="mod_alias">Alias</directive>).</li>
+ <li> The <em>filesystem</em> path to the directory containing the
+ <directive>RewriteRule</directive>, suffixed by the relative
+ substitution is also valid as a URL path on the server
+ (this is rare).</li>
+ </ul>
+<p> In the example below, <directive>RewriteBase</directive> is necessary
+ to avoid rewriting to http://example.com/opt/myapp-1.2.3/welcome.html
+ since the resource was not relative to the document root. This
+ misconfiguration would normally cause the server to look for an "opt"
+ directory under the document root.</p>
+<highlight language="config">
+DocumentRoot /var/www/example.com
+Alias /myapp /opt/myapp-1.2.3
+&lt;Directory /opt/myapp-1.2.3&gt;
+ RewriteEngine On
+ RewriteBase /myapp/
+ RewriteRule ^index\.html$ welcome.html
+&lt;/Directory&gt;
+</highlight>
</usage>
</directivesynopsis>
@@ -805,10 +803,10 @@ RewriteRule ^index\.html$ newsite.html
to block unwanted hotlinking.
</p>
- <example>
+ <highlight language="config">
RewriteCond expr "! %{HTTP_REFERER} -strmatch '*://%{HTTP_HOST}/*'"<br />
RewriteRule ^/images - [F]
- </example>
+ </highlight>
</li>
<li>You can also set special flags for
@@ -834,14 +832,12 @@ RewriteRule ^index\.html$ newsite.html
Use this to combine rule conditions with a local OR
instead of the implicit AND. Typical example:
-<example>
-<pre>
+<highlight language="config">
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} ^host1 [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} ^host2 [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} ^host3
RewriteRule ...some special stuff for any of these hosts...
-</pre>
-</example>
+</highlight>
Without this flag you would have to write the condition/rule
pair three times.
@@ -866,8 +862,7 @@ RewriteRule ...some special stuff for any of these hosts...
``<code>User-Agent:</code>'' header of the request, you can
use the following: </p>
-<example>
-<pre>
+<highlight language="config">
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mozilla
RewriteRule ^/$ /homepage.max.html [L]
@@ -875,8 +870,7 @@ RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Lynx
RewriteRule ^/$ /homepage.min.html [L]
RewriteRule ^/$ /homepage.std.html [L]
-</pre>
-</example>
+</highlight>
<p>Explanation: If you use a browser which identifies itself
as 'Mozilla' (including Netscape Navigator, Mozilla etc), then you
@@ -911,10 +905,11 @@ RewriteRule ^/$ /homepage.std.html [L]
<p><a id="patterns" name="patterns"><em>Pattern</em></a> is
a perl compatible <a id="regexp" name="regexp">regular
- expression</a>. On the first RewriteRule it is applied to the (%-decoded)
- <a href="./directive-dict.html#Syntax">URL-path</a> of the request;
- subsequent patterns are applied to the output of the last matched
- RewriteRule.</p>
+ expression</a>. On the first RewriteRule, it is matched against
+ the (%-decoded) <a href="./directive-dict.html#Syntax">URL-path</a> (or
+ <a href="./directive-dict.html#Syntax">file-path</a>, depending
+ on the context) of the request. Subsequent patterns are matched against the
+ output of the last matching RewriteRule.</p>
<note><title><a id="what_is_matched" name="what_is_matched">What is matched?</a></title>
<p>In <directive module="core">VirtualHost</directive> context,
@@ -923,7 +918,7 @@ RewriteRule ^/$ /homepage.std.html [L]
<p>In <directive module="core">Directory</directive> and htaccess context,
the <em>Pattern</em> will initially be matched against the
- <em>filesystem</em> path, after removing the prefix that lead the server
+ <em>filesystem</em> path, after removing the prefix that led the server
to the current <directive>RewriteRule</directive> (e.g. "app1/index.html"
or "index.html" depending on where the directives are defined).</p>
@@ -955,7 +950,7 @@ and automatically <em>added</em> after any relative (not starting with a
slash or protocol name) substitution encounters the end of a rule set.
See the <directive module="mod_rewrite">RewriteBase</directive>
directive for more information regarding what prefix will be added back to
-relative substitions.</li>
+relative substitutions.</li>
<li> If you wish to match against the full URL-path in a per-directory
(htaccess) RewriteRule, use the <code>%{REQUEST_URI}</code> variable in
@@ -1006,7 +1001,7 @@ cannot use <code>$N</code> in the substitution string!
to be delivered to the client. Substitutions are only
treated as a file-system path when the rule is configured in
server (virtualhost) context and the first component of the
- path in the substitution is exists in the file-system</dd>
+ path in the substitution exists in the file-system</dd>
<dt>URL-path</dt>
@@ -1045,7 +1040,7 @@ cannot use <code>$N</code> in the substitution string!
</dl>
- <p>In addition to plain text, the <em>Substition</em> string can include</p>
+ <p>In addition to plain text, the <em>Substitution</em> string can include</p>
<ol>
<li>back-references (<code>$N</code>) to the RewriteRule
@@ -1073,7 +1068,7 @@ cannot use <code>$N</code> in the substitution string!
<p>Rewrite rules are applied to the results of previous rewrite
rules, in the order in which they are defined
- in the config file. The URI or file path (see <a
+ in the config file. The URL-path or file-system path (see <a
href="#what_is_matched">"What is matched?"</a>, above) is <strong>completely
replaced</strong> by the <em>Substitution</em> and the
rewriting process continues until all rules have been applied,