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| author | Daniel Earl Poirier <poirier@apache.org> | 2010-02-05 02:48:34 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Earl Poirier <poirier@apache.org> | 2010-02-05 02:48:34 +0000 |
| commit | 507e7472c6253d1055e631b01e780e358a1b38d4 (patch) | |
| tree | e270592eb774297a0c53802201b2272f803773eb /docs/manual/configuring.xml | |
| parent | a73f54ac6a04129d64c4e265953423c762ac61d6 (diff) | |
| download | httpd-507e7472c6253d1055e631b01e780e358a1b38d4.tar.gz | |
Be specific about which environment variables can be used in
expansions in the server configuration file.
git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@906779 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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diff --git a/docs/manual/configuring.xml b/docs/manual/configuring.xml index 390a88ca85..c0efc00e3d 100644 --- a/docs/manual/configuring.xml +++ b/docs/manual/configuring.xml @@ -87,6 +87,12 @@ HTTP server.</p> unchanged for use by later stages in the config file processing.)</p> + <p>Only environment variables defined before the server is started + can be used in expansions. Variables defined in the + configuration file itself, for example with <directive + module="mod_env">SetEnv</directive>, take effect too late to be + used for expansions in the configuration file.</p> + <p>The maximum length of a line in the configuration file, after environment-variable substitution, joining any continued lines and removing leading and trailing white space, is 8192 characters.</p> |