On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Issac Goldstand<mar...@beamartyr.net> wrote: > Eric Covener wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Issac Goldstand<mar...@beamartyr.net> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> After a colleague at work was struggling with the Redirect directive, >>> I realized that the docs could be a bit clearer. I prepared a small >>> patch, but didn't want to commit myself simply because I'm not 100% sure >>> of the patch-xml/ant/html processes for committing doc patches. >>> >>> This is against httpd-2.2.13 (should patch fine to trunk, too). >>> >>> Issac >>> >>> Index: manual/mod/mod_alias.xml >>> =================================================================== >>> --- manual/mod/mod_alias.xml (revision 800376) >>> +++ manual/mod/mod_alias.xml (working copy) >>> @@ -214,7 +214,8 @@ >>> >>> <p>Then any request beginning with <em>URL-Path</em> will return a >>> redirect request to the client at the location of the target >>> - <em>URL</em>. Additional path information beyond the matched >>> + <em>URL</em>. If <em>URL-Path</em> ends with a trailing slash, >>> + then additional path information beyond the matched >>> <em>URL-Path</em> will be appended to the target URL.</p> >>> >> >> Can you demonstrate the trailing-slash/no-trailing-slash difference >> this is describing? I wasn't able to recreate. >> >> > Sure. I'll do this from memory, but if you can't reproduce, I'll try to > get a hold of the old config that my colleague was bashing his head against. > > Let's say you have a line Redirect 301 /foo/bar. /baz/bar.extension > > One would assume from the docs that this would rewrite > /foo/bar.something to /baz/bar.extension.something > > However, this isn't the case, since /foo/bar.something doesn't end with > a / and therefore mod_alias is looking for an exact match (in > alias_matches) and the request doesn't get modified at all > > The redirect would need to be done using RedirectMatch or mod_rewrite >
OK, i think it just needs more careful phrasing. I read the updated behavior as implying: Redirect /a/b http://example.com/x Wouldn't send /a/b/c to http://example.com/x/c So it needs to capture that aspect of no-trailing-slash as well. -- Eric Covener cove...@gmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: docs-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: docs-h...@httpd.apache.org
