Bug 65092

Summary:	probable error in ServerName documentation
Product:	Apache httpd-2	Reporter:	Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	HTTP Server Documentation List <docs>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	minor
Priority:	P2
Version:	2.5-HEAD
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description Christoph Anton Mitterer 2021-01-20 04:45:02 UTC

Hey.

mod/core.html#servername says:

"Additionally, this is used when creating self-referential redirection URLs when UseCanonicalName is set to a non-default value."

However, this seems to be wrong.
The default value of UseCanonicalName is "Off", but the non-default value might not be just "On", in which case the above sentence would be true, but also "DNS", in which case "Apache httpd does a reverse DNS lookup on the server IP address that the client connected to in order to work out self-referential URLs".

So the sentence should be rather something straight forward like:
"Additionally, this is used when creating self-referential redirection URLs when UseCanonicalName is set Off."


Cheers,
Chris.