[deployment-guide/comm-rel: 564/727] Updated the Timeout directive description.

Jaromir Hradilek jhradile at fedoraproject.org
Tue Oct 19 13:12:23 UTC 2010


commit 6189014c20911d0c775d8974eeb6467547ce8d6a
Author: Jaromir Hradilek <jhradile at redhat.com>
Date:   Thu Sep 2 11:41:43 2010 +0200

    Updated the Timeout directive description.

 en-US/The_Apache_HTTP_Server.xml |   32 +++++++++++++++++---------------
 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/en-US/The_Apache_HTTP_Server.xml b/en-US/The_Apache_HTTP_Server.xml
index d0ecd15..bdf794c 100644
--- a/en-US/The_Apache_HTTP_Server.xml
+++ b/en-US/The_Apache_HTTP_Server.xml
@@ -1155,7 +1155,7 @@ ErrorDocument 404 /404-not_found.html</screen>
           <term><option>KeepAliveTimeout</option></term>
           <listitem>
             <para>
-              The <option>KeepAliveTimeout</option> directive allows you to specify the number of seconds to wait for another request before closing the connection. It takes the following form:
+              The <option>KeepAliveTimeout</option> directive allows you to specify the amount of time to wait for another request before closing the connection. It takes the following form:
             </para>
             <screen>KeepAliveTimeout <replaceable>time</replaceable></screen>
             <para>
@@ -2021,6 +2021,22 @@ ErrorDocument 404 /404-not_found.html</screen>
             </example>
           </listitem>
         </varlistentry>
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term><option>Timeout</option></term>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The <option>Timeout</option> directive allows you to specify the amount of time to wait for an event before closing a connection. It takes the following form:
+            </para>
+            <screen>Timeout <replaceable>time</replaceable></screen>
+            <para>
+              The <replaceable>time</replaceable> is specified in seconds. The default option is <literal>60</literal>.
+            </para>
+            <example id="example-apache-httpdconf-timeout">
+              <title>Using the <option>Timeout</option> directive</title>
+              <screen>Timeout 60</screen>
+            </example>
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
       </variablelist>
       <formalpara id="s2-apache-indexoptions">
         <title>IndexOptions</title>
@@ -2048,20 +2064,6 @@ 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-timeout">
-        <title>Timeout</title>
-        <indexterm>
-          <primary><command>Timeout</command></primary>
-          <secondary>Apache configuration directive</secondary>
-        </indexterm>
-        <indexterm>
-          <primary>configuration directives, Apache</primary>
-          <secondary><command>Timeout</command></secondary>
-        </indexterm>
-        <para>
-          <command>Timeout</command> defines, in seconds, the amount of time that the server waits for receipts and transmissions during communications. <command>Timeout</command> is set to <command>300</command> seconds by default, which is appropriate for most situations.
-        </para>
-      </formalpara>
       <formalpara id="s2-apache-typesconfig">
         <title>TypesConfig</title>
         <indexterm>


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