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Regular expressions in <Directory ~ ...> and <DirectoryMatch ...> do not work as expected

           Summary: Regular expressions in <Directory ~ ...> and
                    <DirectoryMatch ...> do not work as expected
           Product: Apache httpd-1.3
           Version: 1.3.27
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: core
        AssignedTo: bugs@httpd.apache.org
        ReportedBy: j.mos@gmx.net


Regular Expressions in <Directory ~ ...> and <DirectoryMatch ...> which end
in a $ sign do not work at all (i.e. the directives within such a Directory
Container never get applied).

Consider the following simple example:

<DirectoryMatch "^.*$">
SetHandler cgi-script
Options ExecCGI
</DirectoryMatch>

This Directory Container should match every Directory and thus any file
should be treated as a CGI script.
But actually with the above Container no(!) file gets treated as a CGI script.
If the trailing $ sign is removed from the regular expression then everything
works as expected (i.e. now indeed any file is served as a CGI script).
Since any string (directory) which matches the regular expression "^.*" also
matches "^.*$" this clearly is a bug in the Apache HTTP server.

According to the documentation
   http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#directory
it should be possible to use the $ sign as end-of-string indicator.

Could anyone please test if this bug occurs on other installations, too ?

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