Hey. mod/core.html says for <Directory>: "or a wild-card string using Unix shell-style matching. In a wild-card string, ? matches any single character, and * matches any sequences of characters." In Unix shell-style matching "*" is actually any character sequence (i.e. also no characters at all). In Apache e.g. the following directive: <Directory /var/www/*/foo> would match: /var/www/bar/foo /var/www/baz/foo but not /var/www//foo /var/www/foo While this is consistent with the Unix shell style matching, the text alone could still be confusing to readers, so perhaps it makes sense to either remark that "/*/" still requires at least one character (not being . or ..) or just illustrate it with an example. The same is the case for <Location>. But I guess it's *not* for the regexp versions, or is it? Cheers, Chris.