Commit be2a8f41 authored by dgaudet's avatar dgaudet
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Bring in doc changes from 1.3. 


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docs/manual/misc/compat_notes.html

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  <P>



  <LI>Icons for FancyIndexing broken - well, no, they're not broken, we've just upgraded the

  <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.
@@ -104,6 +118,15 @@ it added one automatically if the .asis file contained a Location header. 


  <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>



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