[deployment-guide/comm-rel: 561/727] Updated the ServerSignature directive description.

Jaromir Hradilek jhradile at fedoraproject.org
Tue Oct 19 13:12:08 UTC 2010


commit cba5205a5bc162df585899caedf035c54d693b2d
Author: Jaromir Hradilek <jhradile at redhat.com>
Date:   Thu Sep 2 10:29:34 2010 +0200

    Updated the ServerSignature directive description.

 en-US/The_Apache_HTTP_Server.xml |   76 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/en-US/The_Apache_HTTP_Server.xml b/en-US/The_Apache_HTTP_Server.xml
index 9b03bf0..8c3396e 100644
--- a/en-US/The_Apache_HTTP_Server.xml
+++ b/en-US/The_Apache_HTTP_Server.xml
@@ -1857,6 +1857,65 @@ ErrorDocument 404 /404-not_found.html</screen>
             </example>
           </listitem>
         </varlistentry>
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term><option>ServerSignature</option></term>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The <option>ServerSignature</option> directive allows you to enable displaying information about the server on server-generated documents. It takes the following form:
+            </para>
+            <screen>ServerSignature <replaceable>option</replaceable></screen>
+            <para>
+              The <replaceable>option</replaceable> has to be a valid keyword as described in <xref linkend="table-apache-httpdconf-serversignature" />. The default option is <option>On</option>.
+            </para>
+            <table id="table-apache-httpdconf-serversignature">
+              <title>Available <option>ServerSignature</option> options</title>
+              <tgroup cols="2">
+                <colspec colname="status" colnum="1" colwidth="20*" />
+                <colspec colname="description" colnum="2" colwidth="60*" />
+                <thead>
+                  <row>
+                    <entry>
+                      Status
+                    </entry>
+                    <entry>
+                      Description
+                    </entry>
+                  </row>
+                </thead>
+                <tbody>
+                  <row>
+                    <entry>
+                      <option>On</option>
+                    </entry>
+                    <entry>
+                      Enables appending the server name and version to server-generated pages.
+                    </entry>
+                  </row>
+                  <row>
+                    <entry>
+                      <option>Off</option>
+                    </entry>
+                    <entry>
+                      Disables appending the server name and version to server-generated pages.
+                    </entry>
+                  </row>
+                  <row>
+                    <entry>
+                      <option>EMail</option>
+                    </entry>
+                    <entry>
+                      Enables appending the server name, version, and the email address of the system administrator as specified by the <option>ServerAdmin</option> directive to server-generated pages.
+                    </entry>
+                  </row>
+                </tbody>
+              </tgroup>
+            </table>
+            <example id="example-apache-httpdconf-serversignature">
+              <title>Using the <option>ServerSignature</option> directive</title>
+              <screen>ServerSignature On</screen>
+            </example>
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
       </variablelist>
       <formalpara id="s2-apache-indexoptions">
         <title>IndexOptions</title>
@@ -1884,23 +1943,6 @@ 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-serversignature">
-        <title>ServerSignature</title>
-        <indexterm>
-          <primary><command>ServerSignature</command></primary>
-          <secondary>Apache configuration directive</secondary>
-        </indexterm>
-        <indexterm>
-          <primary>configuration directives, Apache</primary>
-          <secondary><command>ServerSignature</command></secondary>
-        </indexterm>
-        <para>
-          The <command>ServerSignature</command> directive adds a line containing the Apache HTTP Server server version and the <command>ServerName</command> to any server-generated documents, such as error messages sent back to clients. <command>ServerSignature</command> is set to <command>on</command> by default.
-        </para>
-      </formalpara>
-      <para>
-        <command>ServerSignature</command> can be set to <command>EMail</command> which adds a <command>mailto:ServerAdmin</command> HTML tag to the signature line of auto-generated responses. <command>ServerSignature</command> can also be set to <command>Off</command> to stop Apache from sending out its version number and module information. Please also check the <command>ServerTokens</command> settings.
-      </para>
       <formalpara id="s2-apache-servertoken">
         <title>ServerTokens</title>
         <indexterm>


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