From: Daniel Earl Poirier <poirier@apache.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:30:22 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document that there's a limit on the length of lines in the configuration file.
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Document that there's a limit on the length of lines in the configuration file.

PR: 45888


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diff --git a/docs/manual/configuring.xml b/docs/manual/configuring.xml
index 512b5260199..7ef3006b14a 100644
--- a/docs/manual/configuring.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/configuring.xml
@@ -77,6 +77,10 @@ HTTP server.</p>
     and white space occurring before a directive are ignored, so
     you may indent directives for clarity.</p>
 
+    <p>The maximum length of a line in the configuration file,
+    after joining any continued lines and removing leading and
+    trailing white space, is 8192 characters.</p>
+
     <p>You can check your configuration files for syntax errors
     without starting the server by using <code>apachectl
     configtest</code> or the <code>-t</code> command line