[Bug 70016] New: RewriteRule Directive: Incorrect definition of $0 back-reference

https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=70016

            Bug ID: 70016
           Summary: RewriteRule Directive: Incorrect definition of $0
                    back-reference
           Product: Apache httpd-2
           Version: 2.5-HEAD
          Hardware: All
               URL: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/en/mod/mod_rewrite
                    .html#rewriterule
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: trivial
          Priority: P3
         Component: Documentation
          Assignee: [email protected]
          Reporter: [email protected]
  Target Milestone: ---

According to the documentation of the RewriteRule directive:
> Back-references are identifiers of the form $N (N=0..9), which will be replaced by the contents of the Nth group of the matched Pattern.

While this is approximately correct for 1…9, there is obviously no “zeroth”
group.
I suggest:
> Back-references of the first type are identifiers of the form $n (n=0…9). Back-references are replaced by the contents of the nth group of the matched Pattern, except for $0, which is replaced by the whole matched path.

By the way, I suggest moving that directly in bullet #1.

🅭🄍: https://www.philippecloutier.com/Common+infrastructure+licensing#its

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