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Modified: htdocs/manual/mod mod_rewrite.html Log: Fix a few bugs in the mod_rewrite documentation by the help of some hints from Adam M Donahue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Revision Changes Path 1.39 +8 -8 apache-1.3/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.html Index: mod_rewrite.html =================================================================== RCS file: /export/home/cvs/apache-1.3/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.html,v retrieving revision 1.38 retrieving revision 1.39 diff -u -r1.38 -r1.39 --- mod_rewrite.html 1998/09/17 14:14:57 1.38 +++ mod_rewrite.html 1998/10/22 12:02:27 1.39 @@ -248,21 +248,21 @@ continues with the next rule. If the <EM>Pattern</EM> matched, mod_rewrite looks for corresponding rule conditions. If none are present, it just substitutes the URL with a new value which is constructed from the string -<EM>Substitution</EM> and goes on with its rule-looping. But if conditions But +<EM>Substitution</EM> and goes on with its rule-looping. But if conditions exists, it starts an inner loop for processing them in order they are listed. For conditions the logic is different: We don't match a pattern against the current URL. Instead we first create a string -<EM>TestString</EM> by expanding variables, back-references, map lookups, <EM>etc.</EM> -and then we try to match <EM>TestPattern</EM> against it. If the pattern -doesn't match, the complete set of conditions and the corresponding rule fails. -If the pattern matches, then the next condition is processed until no more -condition is available. If all conditions matched processing is continued with -the substitution of the URL with <EM>Substitution</EM>. +<EM>TestString</EM> by expanding variables, back-references, map lookups, +<EM>etc.</EM> and then we try to match <EM>CondPattern</EM> against it. If the +pattern doesn't match, the complete set of conditions and the corresponding +rule fails. If the pattern matches, then the next condition is processed +until no more condition is available. If all conditions matched processing is +continued with the substitution of the URL with <EM>Substitution</EM>. <H2><A NAME="InternalBackRefs">Regex Back-Reference Availability</A></H2> One important thing here has to be remembered: Whenever you -use parenthesis in <EM>Pattern</EM> or in one of the <EM>TestPattern</EM> +use parenthesis in <EM>Pattern</EM> or in one of the <EM>CondPattern</EM> back-reference are internally created which can be used with the strings <CODE>$N</CODE> and <CODE>%N</CODE> (see below). And these are available for creating the strings <EM>Substitution</EM> and
