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authordgaudet <dgaudet@unknown>1997-07-20 18:28:07 +0000
committerdgaudet <dgaudet@unknown>1997-07-20 18:28:07 +0000
commit2a3d1898a6ef6fb82317aeb3d151ab4dbb00a7c9 (patch)
tree6553b203a5ee1040dff0dd4da4c8a975560e5627
parent91bc7344b9bae97f667b1b82199f34ac668392a5 (diff)
downloadhttpd-2a3d1898a6ef6fb82317aeb3d151ab4dbb00a7c9.tar.gz
Bring in doc changes from 1.3.
git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/1.3@78695 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
-rw-r--r--APACHE_1_2_X/htdocs/manual/misc/compat_notes.html45
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/APACHE_1_2_X/htdocs/manual/misc/compat_notes.html b/APACHE_1_2_X/htdocs/manual/misc/compat_notes.html
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--- a/APACHE_1_2_X/htdocs/manual/misc/compat_notes.html
+++ b/APACHE_1_2_X/htdocs/manual/misc/compat_notes.html
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ href="http://www.apache.org/bugdb.cgi">let us know.</a>
<OL>
-<LI>The basic mod_auth <CODE>AuthGroupFile</CODE>-specified group file
+<LI>The basic mod_auth <CODE>AuthGroupFile</CODE>-specified group file
format allows commas between user names - Apache does not.<BR>
<I>- added 12/1/96</I>
<p>
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ href="http://www.apache.org/bugdb.cgi">let us know.</a>
<LI><CODE>AuthUserFile</CODE> requires a full pathname. In earlier
versions of NCSA httpd and Apache, you could use a filename
relative to the .htaccess file. This could be a major security hole,
- as it made it trivially easy to make a ".htpass" file in the a
+ as it made it trivially easy to make a ".htpass" file in the a
directory easily accessible by the world. We recommend you store
your passwords outside your document tree.
@@ -78,18 +78,32 @@ href="http://www.apache.org/bugdb.cgi">let us know.</a>
<P>
- <LI>Icons for FancyIndexing broken - well, no, they're not broken, we've just upgraded the
- icons from flat .xbm files to pretty and much smaller .gif files, courtesy of
+ <LI>Icons for FancyIndexing broken - well, no, they're not broken,
+ we've just upgraded the
+ icons from flat .xbm files to pretty and much smaller .gif files, courtesy of
<a href="mailto:kevinh@eit.com">Kevin Hughes</a> at
-<a href="http://www.eit.com">EIT</a>.
- If you are using the same srm.conf from an old distribution, make sure you add the new
- AddIcon, AddIconByType, and DefaultIcon commands.
+<a href="http://www.eit.com/">EIT</a>.
+ If you are using the same srm.conf from an old distribution, make sure
+ you add the new
+ <A
+ HREF="../mod/mod_autoindex.html#addicon"
+ >AddIcon</A>,
+ <A
+ HREF="../mod/mod_autoindex.html#addiconbytype"
+ >AddIconByType</A>,
+ and
+ <A
+ HREF="../mod/mod_autoindex.html#defaulticon"
+ >DefaultIcon</A>
+ directives.
<P>
- <LI>Under IRIX, the "Group" directive in httpd.conf needs to be a valid group name
- (i.e. "nogroup") not the numeric group ID. The distribution httpd.conf, and earlier
- ones, had the default Group be "#-1", which was causing silent exits at startup.<p>
+ <LI>Under IRIX, the "Group" directive in httpd.conf needs to be a
+ valid group name
+ (<EM>i.e.</EM>, "nogroup") not the numeric group ID. The distribution
+ httpd.conf, and earlier ones, had the default Group be "#-1", which
+ was causing silent exits at startup.<p>
<li><code>.asis</code> files: Apache 0.6.5 did not require a Status header;
it added one automatically if the .asis file contained a Location header.
@@ -103,7 +117,16 @@ it added one automatically if the .asis file contained a Location header.
</LI>
<LI>Apache does not permit commas delimiting the methods in &lt;Limit&gt;.
-
+
+ <LI>Apache's <CODE>&lt;VirtualHost&gt;</CODE> treats all addresses as
+ "optional" (i.e. the server should continue booting if it can't resolve
+ the address). Whereas in NCSA the default is to fail booting unless
+ an added <code>optional</code> keyword is included.
+
+ <LI>Apache does not implement <CODE>OnDeny</CODE> use
+ <a href="../mod/core.html#errordocument"><code>ErrorDocument</code></a>
+ instead.
+
</OL>
More to come when we notice them....