[Bug 70024] New: RewriteRule documentat ion incoherent about matched string (“origi nal URL-path”)

https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=70024

            Bug ID: 70024
           Summary: RewriteRule documentation incoherent about matched
                    string (“original URL-path”)
           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: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: Documentation
          Assignee: [email protected]
          Reporter: [email protected]
  Target Milestone: ---

The documentation of the RewriteRule directive contains:
> The Substitution of a rewrite rule is the string that replaces the original URL-path that was matched by Pattern.

But according to the “What is matched?” section above:
> In per-directory context (Directory and .htaccess), the Pattern is matched against only a partial path, for example a request of "/app1/index.html" may result in comparison against "app1/index.html" or "index.html" depending on the directory-path for which the RewriteRule applies.

I find “What is matched?” unclear (in particular “the currently mapped
filesystem path“) and am not sure it is correct, but I am confident that “the
original URL-path” is not accurate (only correct some of the time).

I suggest to give the subject of “What is matched?” a name (something like “the
input path”) and just reuse that name in the first sentence this quotes, rather
than try to redefine it.

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