On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 10:20 AM, William A Rowe Jr <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote:
> > This is worthy of discussion on docs@httpd, so please allow me to cite > your example... Your report does suggest that we might illustrate this > alias effect more clearly in the docs, e.g. an example like this; > > Note that unexpected expansion may occur when trailing slashes > are omitted, including the case of "Alias / /foo". Given the example; > Alias /icons /usr/share/icons > A request for /icons/small.gif is mapped to /usr/share/icons/small.gif > A request for /icons-private/small.gif is mapped to > /usr/share/icons-private/small.gif > This behavior is by-design. > When did this get mis-stated at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_alias.html#alias, the information seems most incorrect... Alias "/image" "/ftp/pub/image" A request for http://example.com/image/foo.gif would cause the 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://example.com/imagefoo.gif.
