Re: mod_rewrite docs
Tony Stevenson <tony <at> pc-tony.com>
2008-08-13 13:12:53 GMT
Rich Bowen wrote:
> I've finally resurfaced, and am once again tinkering with the
> mod_rewrite documentation. My goal is to have the rewrite guide be full
> of actual useful real-world examples, and stuff that folks are actually
> asking on IRC and the users <at> list, and to have the explanations be
> actual explanations, rather than just "don't think, just do this" recipes.
>
> I'd also like to get all of the stuff in the ill-fated
> rewrite.drbacchus.com into either the real docs, or into the official
> wiki, so that I can retire that hardware before it gives up the ghost.
>
> So I expect for a while it will look like I'm just flailing about
> aimlessly, but I have a general plan in mind, and I hope I'm moving in
> that direction. Although one can hope that HTTPD 3.0 will make
> mod_rewrite nothing more than an unpleasant memory, for the moment it's
> one of our biggest support burdens, at least on IRC, and I naively
> believe that this could be helped by better documentation, and better
> examples.
>
> I think I've decided to focus on the trunk docs, but if someone wanted
> to apply patches to 2.2, I expect that there are folks who would
> appreciate that. I don't know how cleanly the patches will apply back to
> 2.0, but perhaps that's worth doing, too.
>
I know that there is a patch due to come to dev <at> shortly for mod_rewrite
which adds an extra flag ;-
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