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/2.2.x@1422377 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_alias.xml b/docs/manual/mod/mod_alias.xml
index 3a30f113eb5c114ef95bfc6a834405c74f9c24ed..f2536280f6188e72893840389c74072a0a66b21f 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_alias.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_alias.xml
@@ -245,6 +245,11 @@ expressions</description>
       AliasMatch ^/image/(.*)\.gif$ /files/gif.images/$1.gif
     </example>
 
+    <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>