Merge r1422375 from https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk/:

PR54308: aliasmatch ^/foo matches requests for ////foo

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x@1422376 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_alias.xml b/docs/manual/mod/mod_alias.xml
index 4facef8819d9c4d6490e2f6302401f9657eeac8f..326f594d27bbcb861cca75f9e6e1323fc788b1ce 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_alias.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_alias.xml
@@ -242,6 +242,11 @@ expressions</description>
       AliasMatch ^/image/(.*)\.gif$ /files/gif.images/$1.gif
     </highlight>
 
+    <p>Multiple leading slashes in the requested URL are discarded
+       by the server before directives from this module compares
+       against the requested URL-path.
+    </p>
+
 </usage>
 </directivesynopsis>