From: Bradley Nicholes <bnicholes@apache.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 23:16:05 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Added a note that indicates that forward slashes should always be used on
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=74ec8ae6a8393a9ff9b667f66939f68567ff24cc;p=apache

Added a note that indicates that forward slashes should always be used on
non-unix systems even if the OS allows backslashes


git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@99005 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/core.xml b/docs/manual/mod/core.xml
index 96f75e8595..6e0f5f8ca3 100644
--- a/docs/manual/mod/core.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/core.xml
@@ -917,6 +917,12 @@ ErrorLog logs/error.log (Windows and OS/2)</default>
     document for details on why your security could be compromised
     if the directory where logfiles are stored is writable by
     anyone other than the user that starts the server.</p>
+    <note type="warning"><title>Note</title>
+      <p>When entering a file path on non-Unix platforms, care should be taken
+      to make sure that only forward slashed are used even though the platform
+      may allow the use of back slashes. In general it is a good idea to always 
+      use forward slashes throughout the configuration files.</p>
+    </note>
 </usage>
 <seealso><directive module="core">LogLevel</directive></seealso>
 <seealso><a href="../logs.html">Apache Log Files</a></seealso>
diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_log_config.xml b/docs/manual/mod/mod_log_config.xml
index 8e349fca14..f8e4c8175c 100644
--- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_log_config.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_log_config.xml
@@ -280,6 +280,12 @@
       <p>If a program is used, then it will be run under the user who
       started httpd. This will be root if the server was started by root;
       be sure that the program is secure.</p>
+      </note>
+      <note type="warning"><title>Note</title>
+        <p>When entering a file path on non-Unix platforms, care should be taken
+        to make sure that only forward slashed are used even though the platform
+        may allow the use of back slashes. In general it is a good idea to always 
+        use forward slashes throughout the configuration files.</p>
       </note></dd>
     </dl>