Bug 64042

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/en/mod/mod_dir.html includes documentation for FallbackResource. In this documentation it gives the use case of a 'front controller,' implying that redirecting to a single file using FallbackResource allows that file to access the original URL specified by the user's request.

But the description does not explain how to obtain the original URL.

I suggest that the documentation would be more helpful if it explained how to do this in various server languages, or at least in one.

For example, in PHP, the domain is available in $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] and the original URL (except for any anchor portion) is available in $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'].

On my computer, I cannot contribute to the Comments section at the bottom of the page to contribute this suggestion. That section is readonly, with no explanation that I can find. So I am submitting this ticket.

I am submitting this for 2.5, but of course it applies to 2.4 versions as well. I am hoping the documentation could be extended to help other developers.