From fd6aeb7d83a954834347557ddfe17e457321f4f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rich Bowen Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 14:59:51 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] As per bz53530, a brief explanation of when you may and must use quotes in directory paths. git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@1673804 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- docs/manual/mod/core.xml | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/core.xml b/docs/manual/mod/core.xml index b069810b55..ffca5551de 100644 --- a/docs/manual/mod/core.xml +++ b/docs/manual/mod/core.xml @@ -784,6 +784,10 @@ named file-system directory, sub-directories, and their contents. </Directory> +

Directory paths may be quoted, if you like, however, it + must be quoted if the path contains spaces. This is because a + space would otherwise indicate the end of an argument.

+

Be careful with the directory-path arguments: They have to literally match the filesystem path which Apache httpd uses -- 2.50.1