ProxyPassMatch does not work

Which version or apache are you using and can you provide more details of your setup?

Thanks
chuck

Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty
Apache 2.2
a2enmod proxy_ajp

It seems that the documentation was recently fixed to show that ProxyPass(Match) is not meant to be used within Location declaratives. Either that or I misread or read the wrong docs, as I remember following docs that showed ProxyPass(Match) as being placed within Location declaratives.

Using ProxyPass(Match) within Location declaratives causes unexpected behavior (to the user), such that ProxyPass disables the use of RegEx within Location(Match) declaratives, and whereby ProxyPassMatch enables RegEx within Location(Match).

Here is a use case, where I am trying to proxy(AJP) .jsp extension urls to Apache Tomcat
<Location .+\.jsp$>
ProxyPassMatch ajp://localhost:8009/
ProxyPassReverse ajp://localhost:8009/
</Location>
Notice that ProxyPassMatch only takes one parameter. Also notice that removing "Match" will cause the RegEx to stop matching.

As someone who has used Apache in the past, I probably should have realized that Apache behaves this way due to the way Locations are parsed, but I had been trying to follow the docs I was reading as literally as I could.

Anyhow, this bug should probably be marked invalid.

jh, what you encountered appears to have been a bug, alright. Please have a look at the workaround at the url below

https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46665