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diff --git a/docs/manual/vhosts/mass.xml b/docs/manual/vhosts/mass.xml index 29d8cd4f16..d86071a127 100644 --- a/docs/manual/vhosts/mass.xml +++ b/docs/manual/vhosts/mass.xml @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ NameVirtualHost 111.22.33.44 pathname of the file that is used to satisfy the request. This can be most easily done by using <module>mod_vhost_alias</module> with Apache httpd. Alternatively, - <a href="../rewrite/vhosts.html"><module>mod_rewrite</module> can + <a href="../rewrite/vhosts.html">mod_rewrite can be used</a>.</p> <p>Both of these modules are disabled by default; you must enable one of them when configuring and building Apache httpd if you want to @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ NameVirtualHost 111.22.33.44 <code>ServerName</code> is used instead.</p> <p>The other thing to determine is the document root (configured - with <code>DocumentRoot</code> and available to CGIs via the + with <code>DocumentRoot</code> and available to CGI scripts via the <code>DOCUMENT_ROOT</code> environment variable). In a normal configuration, this is used by the core module when mapping URIs to filenames, but when the server is configured to @@ -168,7 +168,9 @@ VirtualScriptAlias /www/hosts/%0/cgi-bin hosting solution by just turning <code>UseCanonicalName Off</code> into <code>UseCanonicalName DNS</code>. The server name that is inserted into the filename is then derived from - the IP address of the virtual host.</p> + the IP address of the virtual host. The variable <code>%0</code> + references the requested servername, as indicated in the + <code>Host:</code> header.</p> <p>See the <module>mod_vhost_alias</module> documentation for more usage examples.</p> @@ -178,8 +180,8 @@ examples.</p> <section id="homepages"><title>Simplified Dynamic Virtual Hosts</title> <p>This is an adjustment of the above system, tailored for an - ISP's homepages server. Using a slightly more complicated - configuration, we can select substrings of the server name to + ISP's web hosting server. Using <code>%2</code>, + we can select substrings of the server name to use in the filename so that, for example, the documents for <code>www.user.isp.com</code> are found in <code>/home/user/www</code>. It uses a single <code>cgi-bin</code> |