From: Rich Bowen <rbowen@apache.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 11:11:23 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Resolves comment about how regex matches, at
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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/trunk@1728083 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml b/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml
index edd13c56c98..d3f69599ee3 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>
 
@@ -1061,6 +1059,13 @@ 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>