[deployment-guide/comm-rel: 545/727] Updated the ServerAdmin directive description.

Jaromir Hradilek jhradile at fedoraproject.org
Tue Oct 19 13:10:46 UTC 2010


commit 6266a4ef5e4b30630bbc9a1cdc0dac4e56170b2c
Author: Jaromir Hradilek <jhradile at redhat.com>
Date:   Wed Sep 1 14:30:38 2010 +0200

    Updated the ServerAdmin directive description.

 en-US/The_Apache_HTTP_Server.xml |   39 ++++++++++++++-----------------------
 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/en-US/The_Apache_HTTP_Server.xml b/en-US/The_Apache_HTTP_Server.xml
index ba38f02..1ff06ce 100644
--- a/en-US/The_Apache_HTTP_Server.xml
+++ b/en-US/The_Apache_HTTP_Server.xml
@@ -1803,6 +1803,21 @@ ErrorDocument 404 /404-not_found.html</screen>
             </example>
           </listitem>
         </varlistentry>
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term><option>ServerAdmin</option></term>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The <option>ServerAdmin</option> directive allows you to specify the email address of the server administrator to be displayed in server-generated web pages. It takes the following form:
+            </para>
+            <screen>ServerAdmin <replaceable>email</replaceable></screen>
+            <para>
+              The default option is <literal>root at localhost</literal>.
+            </para>
+            <para>
+              This directive is commonly set to <literal>webmaster@<replaceable>hostname</replaceable></literal>, where <replaceable>hostname</replaceable> is the address of the server. Once set, alias <literal>webmaster</literal> to the person responsible for the web server in <filename>/etc/aliases</filename>, and as superuser, run the <command>newaliases</command> command.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
       </variablelist>
       <formalpara id="s2-apache-indexoptions">
         <title>IndexOptions</title>
@@ -1830,30 +1845,6 @@ ErrorDocument 404 /404-not_found.html</screen>
       <para>
         <command>IndexOptions</command> has a number of other parameters which can be set to control the appearance of server generated directories. The <command>IconHeight</command> and <command>IconWidth</command> parameters require the server to include HTML <command>HEIGHT</command> and <command>WIDTH</command> tags for the icons in server generated webpages. The <command>IconsAreLinks</command> parameter combines the graphical icon with the HTML link anchor, which contains the URL link target.
       </para>
-      <formalpara id="s2-apache-serveradmin">
-        <title>ServerAdmin</title>
-        <indexterm>
-          <primary><command>ServerAdmin</command></primary>
-          <secondary>Apache configuration directive</secondary>
-        </indexterm>
-        <indexterm>
-          <primary>configuration directives, Apache</primary>
-          <secondary><command>ServerAdmin</command></secondary>
-        </indexterm>
-        <indexterm>
-          <primary>webmaster</primary>
-          <secondary>email address for</secondary>
-        </indexterm>
-        <para>
-          Sets the <command>ServerAdmin</command> directive to the email address of the Web server administrator. This email address shows up in error messages on server-generated Web pages, so users can report a problem by sending email to the server administrator.
-        </para>
-      </formalpara>
-      <para>
-        By default, <command>ServerAdmin</command> is set to <command>root at localhost</command>.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-        A common way to set up <command>ServerAdmin</command> is to set it to <command>webmaster at example.com</command>. Once set, alias <command>webmaster</command> to the person responsible for the Web server in <filename>/etc/aliases</filename> and run <command>/usr/bin/newaliases</command>.
-      </para>
       <formalpara id="s2-apache-servername">
         <title>ServerName</title>
         <indexterm>


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