general/5487: Wildcard not working in Directory command

[Jim Johnson <ji...@perigee.net>]

>Number:         5487
>Category:       general
>Synopsis:       Wildcard not working in Directory command
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Dec 17 06:20:00 PST 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     jim@perigee.net
>Organization:
apache
>Release:        1.3.9
>Environment:
Linux www 2.2.12 #12 SMP Mon Oct 4 11:19:22 EDT 1999 i686 unknown
>Description:
* does not 'replace any number of characters' like it used to.  

For example:

This line used to work:
 <Directory /usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/users/*/private>

but I had to switch to:
  <Directory /usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/users/./*/./private>

with 1.3.9.

Regards,

Jim
>How-To-Repeat:
It should be easy.  Note, that I am using a '.' for the userdir.
>Fix:
Fix parser.
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