the next sentence says:

The URL argument must be parsable as a URL before regexp substitutions (as well as after). This limits the matches you can use. For instance, if we had used

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diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy.xml b/docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy.xml
index 44e372a54e14452c0eba679757db32f331048529..4c9a22d8652ba564a640009ab9367a855348f86c 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy.xml
@@ -1347,7 +1347,7 @@ ProxyPassReverse  /mirror/foo/ https://backend.example.com/
     then</p>
 
     <highlight language="config">
-      ProxyPassMatch ^(/.*\.gif)$ http://backend.example.com$1
+      ProxyPassMatch ^/(.*\.gif)$ http://backend.example.com/$1
     </highlight>
 
     <p>will cause a local request for