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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:31:24 -0400
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Subject: Fwd: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 49809] DirectoryMatch treats $ as literal
 instead of EOL
From: Eric Covener <covener@gmail.com>
To: dev@httpd.apache.org
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How do people feel about a 2.3-only change to:

* drop the NOTEOL flag in the regexec call
* update the doc to drop the idea that DirectoryMatch applies to
"subdirectories" that match the expression.

The manual already uses DirectoryMatch with $-as-EOL in a few places
expecting it behaves this way.  Since it's so simple to make a regex
apply to subdirectories, I don't think the directive needs to be
hamstrung with the NOTEOL flag.


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Date: Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:28 AM
Subject: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 49809] DirectoryMatch treats $ as literal
instead of EOL
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https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49809

--- Comment #2 from Eric Covener <covener@gmail.com> 2010-08-23 11:28:08 EDT ---
I may actually understand this now. The operative part of the documentation is
this "and sub-directories" part:

<DirectoryMatch> and </DirectoryMatch> are used to enclose a group of
directives which will apply only to the named directory and sub-directories of
that directory, the same as <Directory>. However, it takes as an argument a
regular expression. For example:

Which is why the $ cannot be matched, since we tell PCRE the string we pass in
is not really a string with an end-of-line in it. This is a side of efffect of
expecting it to match sub-directories as well.

Still seems sensless, as with a reasonable default behavior one can just
include subdirectories with the regex itself.

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