From: Eric Covener <covener@apache.org>
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 17:58:11 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: clarify a butchered sentence about missing ServerName, which
X-Git-Tag: 2.5.0-alpha~2413
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=adc8bfb021fd923cf903a5676092d1f4247dfc04;p=thirdparty%2Fapache%2Fhttpd.git

clarify a butchered sentence about missing ServerName, which
is a regular early step in "my directive didn't do anything".

This describes ap_get_local_host()


git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@1725106 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---

diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/core.xml b/docs/manual/mod/core.xml
index ce96d3a3d8f..682792083c4 100644
--- a/docs/manual/mod/core.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/core.xml
@@ -4107,9 +4107,10 @@ ServerName www.example.com
     each appearance overrides the previous appearance (within that
     server).</p>
 
-    <p>If no <directive>ServerName</directive> is specified, then the
-    server attempts to deduce the client visible hostname by performing a
-    reverse lookup on an IP address of the systems hostname.</p>
+    <p>If no <directive>ServerName</directive> is specified, the
+    server attempts to deduce the client visible hostname by first asking 
+    the operating system for the system hostname, and if that fails, 
+    performing a reverse lookup on an IP address present on the system.</p>
 
     <p>If no port is specified in the
     <directive>ServerName</directive>, then the server will use the