Topic: Documentation Files Question

[HoibE]

I am working on Apache 2.2, trying to understand it as a complete novice. In the Apache download package, there are a series of folders ("Manual" being the one of greatest interest to me) that contain what I hoped to be documentation/instructions. They are in .html format, like index.html for example. When I put index.html into a browser (IE7) I don't get what I thought would be a web-like page of information/links/table of contents etc. I get text on a pure white background that looks a lot like source code.

In other folders, from other projects I have .html files that when opened with IE7, display fine.

So the question is, what are these files and how does one use these .html files?

[glsmith]

try this;

in your httpd.conf file find the below line and remove the # from the front;
#Include conf/extra/httpd-manual.conf

Then find this line and do the same;
#Include conf/extra/httpd-languages.conf

Save changes and restart the Apache service and then try
http://localhost/manual in your browser.

[HoibE]

So, I guess those supposed ".html" files are really not your traditional garden variety .htmls like I was thinking/expecting. Excellent results and now I have the manual to refer to in an online fashion. I think this probably is the same material as supplied in the Compiled Help File but I now understand how it's used more fully. Not that it matters but I don't think what you've shown me is covered in the opening docs. You gotta have "people" like yourself to show you the way.

100 points for you! (Thanks very much)

HerbS

[glsmith]

They are your garden variety, just not the .html files ... open index.html.en file however in your browser and you will see what you were expecting, but the links will bring you back to what you first saw.

Or if you prefer Japanese, the .jp file, French, the .fr one. They are multi-language and that complicates things a bit.

[HoibE]

I see what you're saying. Just for the record, opening index.html.en in IE yields this cryptic little wonder:

The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.


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The server did not understand the request, or the request was invalid. Error processing resource 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtm...

But I really do sort of get what you're driving at. Including the "Includes" works. Browsing the .en (on my setup).

Thanks again.

HerbS