From 606f242339dbb552782e2f85830767823bf1c2e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rich Bowen <rbowen@apache.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 11:11:33 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Resolves comment about how regex matches, at
 http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html#comments_thread

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x@1728084 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml b/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml
index 2dd66a99b7..107a0f2bd5 100644
--- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml
@@ -570,7 +570,6 @@ AliasMatch "^/myapp" "/opt/myapp-1.2.3"
                 respectively.</p>
 
                 <p>Those that are special to mod_rewrite include those below.</p>
-        <note>
                 <dl>
                   <dt><code>API_VERSION</code></dt>
 
@@ -644,7 +643,6 @@ AliasMatch "^/myapp" "/opt/myapp-1.2.3"
                   (decoded), unlike most other variables below.</dd>
 
                 </dl>
-</note>
         </li>
       </ul>
 
@@ -1062,6 +1060,13 @@ RewriteRule  "^/$"                 "/homepage.std.html"  [L]
       <code>%{HTTP_HOST}</code>, <code>%{SERVER_PORT}</code>, or
       <code>%{QUERY_STRING}</code> variables respectively.</p>
 
+      <p>In any case, remember that regular expressions are substring
+      matches. That is, you don't need the regex to describe the entire
+      string, just the part that you wish to match. Thus, using a regex
+      of <code>.</code> is often sufficient rather than <code>.*</code>,
+      and the regex <code>abc</code> is <strong>not</code> the same as
+      <code>^abc$</code>.</p>
+
 </note>
 
 <note><title>Per-directory Rewrites</title>
-- 
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