Commit 1ddac89b authored by Richard Bowen's avatar Richard Bowen
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A little bit more detail, and an example, for how DocumentRoot is 

handled. Examples good.


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docs/manual/mod/core.html.en

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<h3>See also</h3>

<ul>

<li><a href="../urlmapping.html">Mapping URLs to Filesystem

Location</a></li>

<li><a href="../urlmapping.html#documentroot">Mapping URLs to Filesystem

Locations</a></li>

</ul>

</div>

<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>

docs/manual/mod/core.xml

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    <p>The <directive>DocumentRoot</directive> should be specified without

    a trailing slash.</p>

</usage>

<seealso><a href="../urlmapping.html">Mapping URLs to Filesystem

Location</a></seealso>

<seealso><a href="../urlmapping.html#documentroot">Mapping URLs to Filesystem

Locations</a></seealso>

</directivesynopsis>



<directivesynopsis>

docs/manual/urlmapping.html.en

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    make up the basic document tree which will be visible from the

    web.</p>



    <p>For example, if <code class="directive"><a href="./mod/core.html#documentroot">DocumentRoot</a></code>

    were set to <code>/var/www/html</code> then a request for

    <code>http://www.example.com/fish/guppies.html</code> would result

    in the file <code>/var/www/html/fish/guppies.html</code> being

    served to the requesting client.</p>



    <p>Apache is also capable of <a href="vhosts/">Virtual

    Hosting</a>, where the server receives requests for more than one

    host. In this case, a different <code class="directive"><a href="./mod/core.html#documentroot">DocumentRoot</a></code> can be specified for each
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    be used to dynamically determine the appropriate place from which

    to serve content based on the requested IP address or

    hostname.</p>



    <p>The <code class="directive"><a href="./mod/core.html#documentroot">DocumentRoot</a></code> directive

    is set in your main server configuration file

    (<code>httpd.conf</code>) and, possibly, once per additional <a href="vhosts/">Virtual Host</a> you create.</p>

</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="./images/up.gif" /></a></div>

<div class="section">

<h2><a name="outside" id="outside">Files Outside the DocumentRoot</a></h2>

docs/manual/urlmapping.xml

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    make up the basic document tree which will be visible from the

    web.</p>



    <p>For example, if <directive module="core">DocumentRoot</directive>

    were set to <code>/var/www/html</code> then a request for

    <code>http://www.example.com/fish/guppies.html</code> would result

    in the file <code>/var/www/html/fish/guppies.html</code> being

    served to the requesting client.</p>



    <p>Apache is also capable of <a href="vhosts/">Virtual

    Hosting</a>, where the server receives requests for more than one

    host. In this case, a different <directive
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    be used to dynamically determine the appropriate place from which

    to serve content based on the requested IP address or

    hostname.</p>



    <p>The <directive module="core">DocumentRoot</directive> directive

    is set in your main server configuration file

    (<code>httpd.conf</code>) and, possibly, once per additional <a

    href="vhosts/">Virtual Host</a> you create.</p>

</section>



<section id="outside"><title>Files Outside the DocumentRoot</title>