On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 15:16 -0400, Joshua Slive wrote: > On 10/21/05, Oil Pine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've just installed Fedora Core 3 and begun to configure Apache2. I am > > reading the config file that was installed by FC3. I have difficulty > > understanding the following instruction. I understand I can simply > > comment this out, but I want to know what it means before I dismiss it. > > > > The manual was installed in /var/www/manual/. Why should this be changed > > to ServerRoot/manual/? > > > > I do get a warning message that must be related to this directive. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] pine]# apachectl -t > > [Fri Oct 21 21:44:20 2005] [warn] The Alias directive > > in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf at line 474 will probably never match > > because it overlaps an earlier AliasMatch. > > Syntax OK > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > part of httpd.conf > > # > > # This should be changed to the ServerRoot/manual/. The alias provides > > # the manual, even if you choose to move your DocumentRoot. You may comment > > # this out if you do not care for the documentation. > > # > > Alias /manual/ "/var/www/manual/" > > You don't need to change it. If you look at your config, you'll > probably find that ServerRoot is set to /var/www. So you aren't > supposed to litterally put "ServerRoot", but rather the value of the > ServerRoot directive. > > The log message means you have another Alias in your config that > starts with /manual/ and it conflicts with this one. > > Joshua. > ServerRoot is /etc/httpd. That is why I asked the question.
The second part of my question had been resolved by another source of info. There is a conf file for the manual, /etc/httpd/conf.d/manual.conf. Thank you for your input. pine --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
