Bug 65092 - probable error in ServerName documentation
Summary: probable error in ServerName documentation
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Apache httpd-2
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Documentation (show other bugs)
Version: 2.5-HEAD
Hardware: All All
: P2 minor (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: HTTP Server Documentation List
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Reported: 2021-01-20 04:45 UTC by Christoph Anton Mitterer
Modified: 2021-01-20 04:45 UTC (History)
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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.