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

diff --git a/docs/manual/rewrite/tech.html.en b/docs/manual/rewrite/tech.html.en
index 007d6565b9e9f30da1953ebafbf797eb1a4df812..a3babf99843ee3c7fe13eef7ebf5a14db685154f 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/rewrite/tech.html.en
+++ b/docs/manual/rewrite/tech.html.en
@@ -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

diff --git a/docs/manual/rewrite/tech.xml b/docs/manual/rewrite/tech.xml
index d30f8748a54b6a03ab3d698a672133b220a4eec8..b3414921437f1cac4f704dfa4a574d38c47463e0 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/rewrite/tech.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/rewrite/tech.xml
@@ -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