https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65057
Bug ID: 65057
Summary: ambiguities in <DirectoryMatch>
Product: Apache httpd-2
Version: 2.5-HEAD
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: Documentation
Assignee: docs@httpd.apache.org
Reporter: cales...@scientia.net
Target Milestone: ---
In at least mod/core.html’s documentation of <DirectoryMatch> (probably
<FileMatch> <LocationMatch>, too):
1) "<DirectoryMatch> and </DirectoryMatch> are used to enclose a group of
directives which will apply only to the named directory (and the files within),
the same as <Directory>."
Well since 2.3.9. exactly this is NO LONGER the case, the sentence should be
improved to e.g.
"<DirectoryMatch> and </DirectoryMatch> are used to enclose a group of
directives which will apply to matching directories (and the (non-directory)
files within) only."
Perhaps adding one like:
"Unlike with (the non regular-experession version of) <Directory> they don't
apply to any subdirectories, unless these are matched by the regular
expression, too."
2) Also it's not really clear whether and how any implicit anchoring is done to
^ and ?,... i.e. to which of the following regexps is <DirectoryMatch
"/var/www"> effectively identical to:
/var/www => would also match /usr/var/www or /usr/var/wwwbar
^/var/www => would also match /usr/var/wwwbar or /usr/var/www/bar
^/var/www/ => would also match any subdirs thereof
or is it what's expected:
^/var/www$
^/var/www/$
i.e. only the directory itself.
Depending on which it is, the documentation's example using
"^/www/(.+/)?[0-9]{3}/" might be wrong too, as this has no explicit $ anchor
and would thus also match /www/something/999/andEvenMore
3) At least to me, the following is not clear:
"This directive applies to requests for directories that may or may not end in
a trailing slash, so expressions that are anchored to the end of line ($) must
be written with care."
I mean for <Location> I'd understand cause there "/foo" is something different
than "/foo/", but for file system directories it's the same if it's a
directory.
So from my understanding:
^/var/www$
^/var/www/$
should be the very same if I want to match only /var/www and no subdirs, while
e.g.
^/var/www => would match anything where the 2nd lvl starts with www
^/var/www/ => would match /var/www and any of it's subdirs
Cheers,
Chris.
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