https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=70062
Bug ID: 70062
Summary: Apache mod_rewrite Introduction: recommends “the PCRE
man pages”
Product: Apache httpd-2
Version: 2.5-HEAD
Hardware: All
URL: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/en/rewrite/intro.h
tml#regex
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P4
Component: Documentation
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
The Regular Expressions section of the Apache mod_rewrite Introduction
contains:
> In this document, we do not attempt to provide a detailed reference to
> regular expressions. For that, we recommend the PCRE man pages, the Perl
> regular expression man page, and Mastering Regular Expressions, by Jeffrey
> Friedl (the third edition is from 2006, but regular expression syntax is
> essentially unchanged, and this remains the definitive reference on the
> subject).
>
“PCRE man pages” labels a link to https://www.pcre.org/pcre.txt
I am not aware of great documentation for PCRE, but that is surely not the
first page readers should be referred to at this point. PCRE is a library even
more complicated than mod_rewrite itself, and that page concatenates all its
manpages into a single plain text file, much of which is entirely irrelevant
for httpd users. Moreover, httpd no longer uses PCRE[1], having switched to
PCRE2.
I would strongly recommend replacing at least that link (the first 2 would
probably be best) with pcre2syntax(3):
https://www.pcre.org/current/doc/html/pcre2syntax.html
By the way, “Perl Compatible Regular Expressions” is plural.
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