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authordgaudet <dgaudet@unknown>1998-02-20 07:47:54 +0100
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parenttired tired tired of these stupid linux questions (diff)
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spell out the obviously not so obvious
fix slight semantic error git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@80249 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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-rw-r--r--docs/manual/vhosts/details.html8
-rw-r--r--docs/manual/vhosts/name-based.html5
-rw-r--r--docs/manual/vhosts/name-based.html.en5
3 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/manual/vhosts/details.html b/docs/manual/vhosts/details.html
index 7da5f60238..fdb9512597 100644
--- a/docs/manual/vhosts/details.html
+++ b/docs/manual/vhosts/details.html
@@ -214,10 +214,10 @@ one or more vhost structures. This list contains the vhosts in the same
order as the <CODE>VirtualHost</CODE> directives appear in the config
file.
-<P>The first vhost on this list (the first vhost that appears after the
-corresponding <CODE>NameVirtualHost</CODE> directive in the config file)
-has the highest priority and catches any request to an unknown
-server name or a request without a <CODE>Host:</CODE> header.
+<P>The first vhost on this list (the first vhost in the config file with
+the specified IP address) has the highest priority and catches any request
+to an unknown server name or a request without a <CODE>Host:</CODE>
+header.
<P>If the client provided a <CODE>Host:</CODE> header the list is
searched for a matching vhost and the first hit on a <CODE>ServerName</CODE>
diff --git a/docs/manual/vhosts/name-based.html b/docs/manual/vhosts/name-based.html
index 0c1a9317b0..f02e4d85ac 100644
--- a/docs/manual/vhosts/name-based.html
+++ b/docs/manual/vhosts/name-based.html
@@ -64,6 +64,11 @@ all that is needed is to make sure that the name
<SAMP>www.domain.tld</SAMP> is an alias (CNAME) pointing to the IP address
<SAMP>111.22.33.44</SAMP></P>
+<p>Note: When you specify an IP address in a <code>NameVirtualHost</code>
+directive then requests to that IP address will only ever be served
+by matching &lt;VirtualHost&gt;s. The "main server" will <b>never</b>
+be served from the specified IP address.
+
<P>Additionally, many servers may wish to be accessible by more than
one name. For example, the example server might want to be accessible
as <CODE>domain.tld</CODE>, or <CODE>www2.domain.tld</CODE>, assuming
diff --git a/docs/manual/vhosts/name-based.html.en b/docs/manual/vhosts/name-based.html.en
index 0c1a9317b0..f02e4d85ac 100644
--- a/docs/manual/vhosts/name-based.html.en
+++ b/docs/manual/vhosts/name-based.html.en
@@ -64,6 +64,11 @@ all that is needed is to make sure that the name
<SAMP>www.domain.tld</SAMP> is an alias (CNAME) pointing to the IP address
<SAMP>111.22.33.44</SAMP></P>
+<p>Note: When you specify an IP address in a <code>NameVirtualHost</code>
+directive then requests to that IP address will only ever be served
+by matching &lt;VirtualHost&gt;s. The "main server" will <b>never</b>
+be served from the specified IP address.
+
<P>Additionally, many servers may wish to be accessible by more than
one name. For example, the example server might want to be accessible
as <CODE>domain.tld</CODE>, or <CODE>www2.domain.tld</CODE>, assuming