With the new configuration of version 2.2.x of Apache, you may find that some things have changed, some things disabled etc. This extra config section hopefully will show you the way. This page will be updated as I find things.

Enable the local Manual again!

So Apache have decided to disable the local copy of the manual - it is still there, but using up 9MB of disk space and not being utilised. I have been asked - and I asked myself to begin with - why is it that typing in http://localhost/manual gives me an error page instead of the manual I love to refer to ?

Edit your httpd.conf file and locate :-

# Local access to the Apache HTTP Server Manual
#Include conf/extra/httpd-manual.conf

Lets enable the manual by removing the comment from the second line.

# Local access to the Apache HTTP Server Manual
Include conf/extra/httpd-manual.conf

Ok, good thats it, restart the Apache Server service and go to http://localhost/manual and you should have your manual showing again!

If you get an Access Denied message, have a look in ../conf/extra/httpd-manual.conf and check that the location specified in the Alias Match and Manual lines points to the location of the manual directory.

Disable external access to the Manual

Ok, so above we have enabled access to the manual again, and even though Apache have commented it as being 'Local access ...' , it will also be able to be accessed if you have enabled your website to be accessed externally across the internet. So accessing http://localhost/manual is possible, but so is http://yoursite.com/manual .

You may not care about this, but if you do here is how to disable external access to your manual.

Edit your ../conf/extra/httpd-manual.conf file and locate in the Directory configuration :-

Allow from all

Change this to read :-

Allow from localhost

Restart your Server. Now http://locahost/manual will still work, but http://yoursite.com/manual will not. You can enhance this to allow the whole of your local network access, certain external IP addresses etc etc.

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