Caveat when using mod_speling in a DAV-enabled directory

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@97668 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_speling.xml b/docs/manual/mod/mod_speling.xml
index fc034a4b6bdc02753a01101be26e03d4aa75424b..4aa2a9523e2968c86173141e9331a7a70af6bcdd 100755 (executable)
--- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_speling.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_speling.xml
@@ -88,6 +88,13 @@ of Apache 1.3, it is part of the Apache distribution. Prior to Apache
       get incorrectly treated as the negotiated file
       "<code>/stats.html</code>".</li>
     </ul>
+
+    <p>mod_speling should not be enabled in <a href="mod_dav.html">DAV</a>
+    enabled directories, because it will try to "spell fix" newly created
+    resource names against existing filenames, e.g., when trying to upload
+    a new document <code>doc43.html</code> it might redirect to an existing
+    document <code>doc34.html</code>, which is not what was intended.
+    </p>
 </usage>
 
 </directivesynopsis>