<em>CondPattern</em>.</p>
<p><em>CondPattern</em> is usually a
- <em>perl compatible regular expression</em>, but there is
+ <glossary ref="regex">regular expression</glossary>, but there is
additional syntax available to perform other useful tests against
the <em>Teststring</em>:</p>
in which they will be applied at run-time.</p>
<p><a id="patterns" name="patterns"><em>Pattern</em></a> is
- a perl compatible <a id="regexp" name="regexp">regular
- expression</a>. What this pattern is compared against varies depending
+ a <a id="regexp" name="regexp"><glossary ref="regex">regular
+ expression</glossary></a>. What this pattern is compared against varies depending
on where the <directive>RewriteRule</directive> directive is defined. </p>
<note><title><a id="what_is_matched" name="what_is_matched">What is matched?</a></title>
or "index.html" depending on where the <directive>RewriteRule</directive> is
defined.</p>
- <p>The directory path where the rule is defined is stripped from the currently mapped
+ <p>The directory-path for which the rule is defined is stripped from the currently mapped
filesystem path before comparison (up to and including a trailing slash).
The net result of this per-directory prefix stripping is that rules in
this context only match against the portion of the currently mapped filesystem path