This should help folks trying to understand vhosts. It adds the command

line option -S which dumps a description of how apache parsed the vhost
directives.  In particular it'd really help the folks who recently ran
into /etc/hosts mismatches with DNS.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@80965 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

diff --git a/docs/manual/invoking.html b/docs/manual/invoking.html
index 1eff24f2d124c257be7c2c2866fc9d01b9b7346e..e7767cbbdfa45c234161a8e79cc5866a646e4df5 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/invoking.html
+++ b/docs/manual/invoking.html
@@ -59,6 +59,10 @@ places where the directive is valid. (New in Apache 1.2)
 <DT><CODE>-l</CODE>
 <DD>Give a list of all modules compiled into the server.
 
+<DT><CODE>-S</CODE>
+<DD>Show the settings as parsed from the config file (currently only
+shows a breakdown of the vhost settings).
+
 <DT><CODE>-?</CODE>
 <DD>Print a list of the httpd options, and then exit.
 </DL>

diff --git a/docs/manual/invoking.html.en b/docs/manual/invoking.html.en
index 1eff24f2d124c257be7c2c2866fc9d01b9b7346e..e7767cbbdfa45c234161a8e79cc5866a646e4df5 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/invoking.html.en
+++ b/docs/manual/invoking.html.en
@@ -59,6 +59,10 @@ places where the directive is valid. (New in Apache 1.2)
 <DT><CODE>-l</CODE>
 <DD>Give a list of all modules compiled into the server.
 
+<DT><CODE>-S</CODE>
+<DD>Show the settings as parsed from the config file (currently only
+shows a breakdown of the vhost settings).
+
 <DT><CODE>-?</CODE>
 <DD>Print a list of the httpd options, and then exit.
 </DL>

diff --git a/docs/manual/vhosts/index.html b/docs/manual/vhosts/index.html
index d2df6e08244ac3406af0d6634df20f267b2229ee..be02eaa4d71ae57b7253a5796b7bb6efc8df41d8 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/vhosts/index.html
+++ b/docs/manual/vhosts/index.html
@@ -53,6 +53,12 @@ of virtual host support in Apache version 1.3 and later.</P>
 <LI><A HREF="../mod/core.html#serverpath">ServerPath</A>
 </UL>
 
+<p>Folks trying to debug their virtual host configuration may find the
+Apache <code>-S</code> command line switch useful.  It will dump out a
+description of how Apache parsed the configuration file.  Careful
+examination of the IP addresses and server names may help uncover
+configuration mistakes.
+
 <!--#include virtual="footer.html" -->
 </BODY>
 </HTML>

diff --git a/docs/manual/vhosts/index.html.en b/docs/manual/vhosts/index.html.en
index d2df6e08244ac3406af0d6634df20f267b2229ee..be02eaa4d71ae57b7253a5796b7bb6efc8df41d8 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/vhosts/index.html.en
+++ b/docs/manual/vhosts/index.html.en
@@ -53,6 +53,12 @@ of virtual host support in Apache version 1.3 and later.</P>
 <LI><A HREF="../mod/core.html#serverpath">ServerPath</A>
 </UL>
 
+<p>Folks trying to debug their virtual host configuration may find the
+Apache <code>-S</code> command line switch useful.  It will dump out a
+description of how Apache parsed the configuration file.  Careful
+examination of the IP addresses and server names may help uncover
+configuration mistakes.
+
 <!--#include virtual="footer.html" -->
 </BODY>
 </HTML>