Commit ef68b278 authored by Eric Covener's avatar Eric Covener
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clarify looping issue for PR52171. 

-This line, and those below, will be ignored--

M    rewrite/tech.html.en
M    rewrite/tech.xml


git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@1201455 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
parent 7cb16cb6

docs/manual/rewrite/tech.html.en

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@@ -69,11 +69,13 @@ and URL matching.</p> 
    this, mod_rewrite temporarily translates the filename back into a URL,

    by stripping off directory path before appling the rules. (See the

    <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritebase">RewriteBase</a></code> directive to

    see how you can further manipulate how this is handled.) Then, a new

    internal subrequest is issued with the new URL. This restarts

    processing of the request phases. (Be careful to avoid rules that

    can cause looping. See <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/RewriteLooping">RewriteLooping</a>

    for further discussion of this problem.</p>

    see how you can further manipulate how this is handled.) If a substitution

    is made, a new internal subrequest is issued with the new URL, which restarts

    processing of the request phases. In this context, care must be taken to 

    create rules which will eventually (in some future "round" of per-directory

    rewrite processing) not perform a substitution to avoid looping.

    (See <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/RewriteLooping">RewriteLooping</a>

    for further discussion of this problem.)</p>



    <p>Because of this further manipulation of the URL in per-directory

    context, you'll need to take care to craft your rewrite rules

docs/manual/rewrite/tech.xml

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@@ -79,11 +79,13 @@ and URL matching.</p> 
    this, mod_rewrite temporarily translates the filename back into a URL,

    by stripping off directory path before appling the rules. (See the

    <directive module="mod_rewrite">RewriteBase</directive> directive to

    see how you can further manipulate how this is handled.) Then, a new

    internal subrequest is issued with the new URL. This restarts

    processing of the request phases. (Be careful to avoid rules that

    can cause looping. See <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/RewriteLooping">RewriteLooping</a>

    for further discussion of this problem.</p>

    see how you can further manipulate how this is handled.) If a substitution

    is made, a new internal subrequest is issued with the new URL, which restarts

    processing of the request phases. In this context, care must be taken to 

    create rules which will eventually (in some future "round" of per-directory

    rewrite processing) not perform a substitution to avoid looping.

    (See <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/RewriteLooping">RewriteLooping</a>

    for further discussion of this problem.)</p>



    <p>Because of this further manipulation of the URL in per-directory

    context, you'll need to take care to craft your rewrite rules