Commit 6fbb9581 authored by Joshua Slive's avatar Joshua Slive
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Document Roy's recent discovery that plain Alias/Redirect only 

match complete path segments.  I haven't tested the examples,
but they seem to be right according to the code.


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docs/manual/mod/mod_alias.xml

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@@ -113,7 +113,11 @@ ignored.</p> 
    </example>



    <p>A request for http://myserver/image/foo.gif would cause the

    server to return the file /ftp/pub/image/foo.gif.</p>

    server to return the file /ftp/pub/image/foo.gif.  Only complete

    path segments are matched, so the above alias would not match a

    request for http://myserver/imagefoo.gif.  For more complex

    matching using regular expressions, see the <directive

    module="mod_alias">AliasMatch</directive> directive.</p>



    <p>Note that if you include a trailing / on the

    <var>url-path</var> then the server will require a trailing / in
@@ -206,7 +210,12 @@ a different URL</description> 


    <p>If the client requests http://example.com/service/foo.txt, it

    will be told to access http://foo2.example.com/service/foo.txt

    instead.</p>

    instead.  Only complete path segments are matched, so the above

    example would not match a request for

    http://example.com/servicefoo.txt.  For more complex matching

    using regular expressions, see the <directive

    module="mod_alias">RedirectMatch</directive> directive.</p>





<note><title>Note</title> <p>Redirect directives take precedence over

Alias and ScriptAlias directives, irrespective of their ordering in