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Note in the example above that none of the <Path> elements contain leading or trailing slash characters. Such characters will be stripped from the configuration and ignored, so they are insignificant.
Also note the element with a single slash labeled with a warning. An empty pathname will be ignored, and does NOT mean "anything on the parent host". Rather, the <Host> element is applied by default to any paths that don't match a child element. You don't need to specify an empty child path, in other words, to match an entire host.
However, it is allowable to include a slash inside a path expression in order to "shortcut" an expression intended to match only a subpath. This is shown in the example. It is equivalent to expand such an expression out into a set of nested <Path> elements representing the URL tree. Embedding the slash is just a shorthand.
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