On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Eric Covener <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Glenn Gillis <[email protected]> wrote: > > Would any rewriting gurus out there care to speculate why the rewrite > rule: > > > > "RewriteRule /blog http://spotlight.wordpress.com/"; > > > > would cause the image URL: > > > > "<img src="/system/files/images_content/blogspot_final_framed_0.jpg" > > alt="what we do" width="500" height="125" />" > > > > to redirect to the spotlight.wordpress.com webpage? > > > > Running Apache 2.2.9 on FreeBSD 6.x. > > If you want to match exactly "/blog" and not that string inside the > URL, you need to anchor it with e.g. ^/blog$ > > -- > Eric Covener > [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > " from the digest: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > because! regular expressions are by definition greedy, which means they will match the largest possible string of characters. If you don't give it boundaries like the start and end string delimiters it just sucks up everything that it can.
