Hi, RewriteRule does tilde expansion even without mod_userdir being loaded, and it does so without the usual public_html component being added. This is a) not mod_rewrite's business and b) a practically unknown feature. I'd like to see this feature removed.
There's also an issue with the substitution part of a rule being taken as an absolute filesystem path if the first part of the rewriten path corresponds to the name of a directory in root. This is useful but again rarely known and potentially dangerous (with the caveat that / should be protected by Deny). I'd like to see a flag added to RewriteRule to make this behaviour explicit rather than implied. Being a lowly docs-mule I'm not able to make these kinds of changes myself; hopefully that doesn't make this message a heckle from the peanut gallery. Should I file a bug for this? It's a feature request rather than a bug so I thought not. -- noodl
