Commit 8c6bbc5e authored by Richard Bowen's avatar Richard Bowen
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Additional comment about the role of ServerName


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    <p>The <code class="directive">ServerName</code> directive sets the

    request scheme, hostname and

    port that the server uses to identify itself.  This is used when

    creating redirection URLs. For example, if the name of the

    creating redirection URLs.</p>



    <p>Additionally, <code class="directive">ServerName</code> is used (possibly

    in conjunction with <code class="directive">ServerAlias</code>) to uniquely

    identify a virtual host, when using <a href="../vhosts/name-based.html">name-based virtual hosts</a>.</p>

    

    <p>For example, if the name of the

    machine hosting the web server is <code>simple.example.com</code>,

    but the machine also has the DNS alias <code>www.example.com</code>

    and you wish the web server to be so identified, the following

docs/manual/mod/core.xml

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    <p>The <directive>ServerName</directive> directive sets the

    request scheme, hostname and

    port that the server uses to identify itself.  This is used when

    creating redirection URLs. For example, if the name of the

    creating redirection URLs.</p>



    <p>Additionally, <code class="directive">ServerName</code> is used (possibly

    in conjunction with <code class="directive">ServerAlias</code>) to uniquely

    identify a virtual host, when using <a href="../vhosts/name-based.html">name-based virtual hosts</a>.</p>

    

    <p>For example, if the name of the

    machine hosting the web server is <code>simple.example.com</code>,

    but the machine also has the DNS alias <code>www.example.com</code>

    and you wish the web server to be so identified, the following