Hi,

Say I have the following in my /DocRoot/foo/.htaccess:

  RewriteRule (.*) http://another.site/$1 [last,redirect=permanent]

According to the comments around line 1940 of mod_rewrite.c, the local prefix
should be stripped from the URI before matching against the pattern. Indeed,
http://my.site/foo/bar does get redirected to http://another.site/bar . However,
if one tries to access http://my.site/foo , the string comparison in the code
fails, resulting in the full path being matched against the pattern. i.e.
http://my.site/foo is redirected to http://another.site//DocRoot/foo .

A temporary fix is to special-case this condition in the rewrite rules:

  RewriteRule /DocRoot/foo http://another.site/ [last,redirect=permanent]

though this is hardly elegant.

Thanks,
/Liyang