Removes an inscrutable recipe - I don't know what problem it's trying to

solve, and the solution appears to be a completely useless use of
RewriteMap to solve a trivial problem that could be better done with
Alias. Am I missing something?

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@835824 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

diff --git a/docs/manual/rewrite/rewrite_guide.html.en b/docs/manual/rewrite/rewrite_guide.html.en
index 4c27d4543f9e9efabb39574a3a56c7ed96115191..b05eaed87be7002fb206889da08ba277c258014d 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/rewrite/rewrite_guide.html.en
+++ b/docs/manual/rewrite/rewrite_guide.html.en
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@
 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#redirecthome">Redirect Homedirs For Foreigners</a></li>
 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#redirectanchors">Redirecting Anchors</a></li>
 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#time-dependent">Time-Dependent Rewriting</a></li>
-<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#external-rewriting">External Rewriting Engine</a></li>
 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#structuredhomedirs">Structured Homedirs</a></li>
 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#dynamic-mirror">Dynamic Mirror</a></li>
 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#retrieve-missing-data">Retrieve Missing Data from Intranet</a></li>
@@ -298,60 +297,6 @@ RewriteRule   ^foo\.html$             foo.night.html
 
     </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
 <div class="section">
-<h2><a name="external-rewriting" id="external-rewriting">External Rewriting Engine</a></h2>
-
-      
-
-      <dl>
-        <dt>Description:</dt>
-
-        <dd>
-          <p>A FAQ: How can we solve the FOO/BAR/QUUX/etc.
-          problem? There seems no solution by the use of
-          <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code>...</p>
-        </dd>
-
-        <dt>Solution:</dt>
-
-        <dd>
-          <p>Use an external <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritemap">RewriteMap</a></code>, i.e. a program which acts
-          like a <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritemap">RewriteMap</a></code>. It is run once on startup of Apache
-          receives the requested URLs on <code>STDIN</code> and has
-          to put the resulting (usually rewritten) URL on
-          <code>STDOUT</code> (same order!).</p>
-
-<div class="example"><pre>
-RewriteEngine on
-RewriteMap    quux-map       <strong>prg:</strong>/path/to/map.quux.pl
-RewriteRule   ^/~quux/(.*)$  /~quux/<strong>${quux-map:$1}</strong>
-</pre></div>
-
-<div class="example"><pre>
-#!/path/to/perl
-
-#   disable buffered I/O which would lead
-#   to deadloops for the Apache server
-$| = 1;
-
-#   read URLs one per line from stdin and
-#   generate substitution URL on stdout
-while (&lt;&gt;) {
-    s|^foo/|bar/|;
-    print $_;
-}
-</pre></div>
-
-          <p>This is a demonstration-only example and just rewrites
-          all URLs <code>/~quux/foo/...</code> to
-          <code>/~quux/bar/...</code>. Actually you can program
-          whatever you like. But notice that while such maps can be
-          <strong>used</strong> also by an average user, only the
-          system administrator can <strong>define</strong> it.</p>
-        </dd>
-      </dl>
-
-    </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
-<div class="section">
 <h2><a name="structuredhomedirs" id="structuredhomedirs">Structured Homedirs</a></h2>
 
       

diff --git a/docs/manual/rewrite/rewrite_guide.xml b/docs/manual/rewrite/rewrite_guide.xml
index 5e52db3fa31403bf9831a9e9d6dd5fe9c49e7f0e..91f2ea9b5460805f61240606960061864b4499ef 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/rewrite/rewrite_guide.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/rewrite/rewrite_guide.xml
@@ -292,62 +292,6 @@ RewriteRule   ^foo\.html$             foo.night.html
 
     </section>
 
-    <section id="external-rewriting">
-
-      <title>External Rewriting Engine</title>
-
-      <dl>
-        <dt>Description:</dt>
-
-        <dd>
-          <p>A FAQ: How can we solve the FOO/BAR/QUUX/etc.
-          problem? There seems no solution by the use of
-          <module>mod_rewrite</module>...</p>
-        </dd>
-
-        <dt>Solution:</dt>
-
-        <dd>
-          <p>Use an external <directive module="mod_rewrite"
-          >RewriteMap</directive>, i.e. a program which acts
-          like a <directive module="mod_rewrite"
-          >RewriteMap</directive>. It is run once on startup of Apache
-          receives the requested URLs on <code>STDIN</code> and has
-          to put the resulting (usually rewritten) URL on
-          <code>STDOUT</code> (same order!).</p>
-
-<example><pre>
-RewriteEngine on
-RewriteMap    quux-map       <strong>prg:</strong>/path/to/map.quux.pl
-RewriteRule   ^/~quux/(.*)$  /~quux/<strong>${quux-map:$1}</strong>
-</pre></example>
-
-<example><pre>
-#!/path/to/perl
-
-#   disable buffered I/O which would lead
-#   to deadloops for the Apache server
-$| = 1;
-
-#   read URLs one per line from stdin and
-#   generate substitution URL on stdout
-while (&lt;&gt;) {
-    s|^foo/|bar/|;
-    print $_;
-}
-</pre></example>
-
-          <p>This is a demonstration-only example and just rewrites
-          all URLs <code>/~quux/foo/...</code> to
-          <code>/~quux/bar/...</code>. Actually you can program
-          whatever you like. But notice that while such maps can be
-          <strong>used</strong> also by an average user, only the
-          system administrator can <strong>define</strong> it.</p>
-        </dd>
-      </dl>
-
-    </section>
-
     <section id="structuredhomedirs">
 
       <title>Structured Homedirs</title>