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diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy.html.en b/docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy.html.en index 943dc9f5..eec53661 100644 --- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy.html.en +++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy.html.en @@ -1114,6 +1114,20 @@ through</td></tr> <p>will cause a local request for <code>http://example.com/foo/bar.gif</code> to be internally converted into a proxy request to <code>http://backend.example.com/foo/bar.gif</code>.</p> + <div class="note"><h3>Note</h3> + <p>The URL argument must be parsable as a URL <em>before</em> regexp + substitutions (as well as after). This limits the matches you can use. + For instance, if we had used</p> + <div class="example"><p><code> + ProxyPassMatch ^(/.*\.gif)$ http://backend.example.com:8000$1 + </code></p></div> + <p>in our previous example, it would fail with a syntax error + at server startup. This is a bug (PR 46665 in the ASF bugzilla), + and the workaround is to reformulate the match:</p> + <div class="example"><p><code> + ProxyPassMatch ^/(.*\.gif)$ http://backend.example.com:8000/$1 + </code></p></div> + </div> <p>The <code>!</code> directive is useful in situations where you don't want to reverse-proxy a subdirectory.</p> |