After much pulling out of hair trying to get this thing to work, I decided to run dbg-cli itself through DDD and find the following...
Platform:
Linux FC1
DBG 2.11.30
DBG-CLI 2.11.30 (built with tracing on)
PHP 4.3.4
Apache 1.3.31
All running on the same linux box
In UrlParse.cpp, line 34, regexec() returns ferr = 1 resulting in the following from dbg-cli
I added an extra line of debug print to make things clearer...
 	
	| UrlParse::UrlParse(const std::string& url) : ferr(0), fport(0) {
 regex_t re;
 regmatch_t match[11];
 int len = url.length();
 
 ferr = regcomp(&re, "^(([^:/?#]+):)?(//([^/?#]*))?([^?#]*)(\\?([^#]*))?(#(.*))?", REG_EXTENDED);
 if (ferr)
 return;
 ferr = regexec(&re, url.c_str(), 10, match, 0);
 +   fprintf(stderr, "UrlParse::UrlParse\n URL='%s'\n after regexec ferr=%d\n", url.c_str(), ferr);
 
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I put this expression into perl and it worked there. Transcript of entire session follows:
 	
	| [root@cerberus abm]# dbg-cli
 ListenerBase::ListenerBase
 DBG php debugger, version 2.11.30, Copyright 2001, 2004, Dmitri Dmitrienko, www.nusphere.com
 dbg>set mode on
 dbg>set mapurlroot http://rdftest/
 dbg>set maplocalroot /usr/local/apache/devel/rdftest/htdocs
 dbg>set mapremoteroot /usr/local/apache/devel/rdftest/htdocs
 dbg>file /usr/local/apache/devel/rdftest/htdocs/index.php
 Reading symbols from /usr/local/apache/devel/rdftest/htdocs/index.php...done.
 dbg>run
 ListenerBase::startsession
 ThreadBase::ThreadBase
 dbh_create_listen_socket(, 10001)
 socket=4
 open_dbg_session
 UrlParse::UrlParse
 URL='http://rdftest/index.php'
 after regexec ferr=1
 open_http_session
 ThreadBase::close()
 
 Program exited.
 Wrong session request passed
 Program is not being run.
 dbg>q
 ListenerBase::~ListenerBase
 ListenerBase::stop
 ListenerBase::stopJIT
 stopping clients
 [root@cerberus abm]# cat dbg-re.pl
 #!/usr/bin/perl
 
 my $url = 'http://rdftest/index.php';
 
 if ($url =~ m!^(([^:/?#]+):)?(//([^/?#]*))?([^?#]*)(\\?([^#]*))?(#(.*))?!)
 {
 print "$1\n$2\n$3\n$4\n$5\n$6\n$7\n$8\n$9\n$10\n";
 }
 else
 {
 print "No match\n";
 }
 [root@cerberus abm]# perl dbg-re.pl
 http:
 http
 //rdftest
 rdftest
 /index.php
 
 
 
 
 
 [root@cerberus abm]#
 
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Er, what now?  
