Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Vhosts docs

2002-07-02 Thread Michael . Schroepl
Hi Rich, >> IMHO there is no need mentioning IP addresses or port >> numbers this early. > How about if I make the IP address phrase parenthetical? Fine. I myself am using parentheses frequently to express something like a "melody" or "less emphasis" and the like. HTML _does_ provide things li

Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Vhosts docs

2002-07-02 Thread Rich Bowen
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi Rich, > > I believe that people don't use features because they > are there, but because they need them. The features are there because people need them. This seems like a rather strange distinction to make, but I *think* I follow what you are sa

Antwort: Re: Antwort: Vhosts docs

2002-07-01 Thread Michael . Schroepl
Hi Rich, > I've read your note a few times, and I think I may still be > missing what you're getting at here. I'm not clear what you > are recommending actually go into this part of the docs to > address your "first experience" with vhosts. > It is specifically folks' first experience with vhost

Re: Antwort: Vhosts docs

2002-06-29 Thread Rich Bowen
On Fri, 28 Jun 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi Rich, > > > > "I have one IP address, and want host three web sites on my > > server. What should I do?" This is more the format in which > > people are thinking, and the example names like "Simple name- > > based vhosting" and "More complicated

Antwort: Vhosts docs

2002-06-28 Thread Michael . Schroepl
Hi Rich, > "I have one IP address, and want host three web sites on my > server. What should I do?" This is more the format in which > people are thinking, and the example names like "Simple name- > based vhosting" and "More complicated name-based vhosts" are > just so much greek to them. maybe

Re: Vhosts docs

2002-06-16 Thread Joshua Slive
Rich Bowen wrote: OK, I can see this. That was misguided. However, it seems to me that the mod_rewrite portion of this doc has so little explanation that it seems like line noise to most beginners. The word "simple" (which, IMHO, should *never* be in documentation, because it makes beginners feel s

Re[2]: Vhosts docs

2002-06-15 Thread Rich Bowen
On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, [ISO-8859-15] Astrid Keßler wrote: > > > I think all of your ideas are good, with the exception of removing the > > mod_rewrite mass-virtual hosting. > > I strongly agree with Joshua. Please don't remove such further > descriptions. Maybe put them into a section 'specials' or

Re[2]: Vhosts docs

2002-06-15 Thread Astrid Keßler
> I think all of your ideas are good, with the exception of removing the > mod_rewrite mass-virtual hosting. I strongly agree with Joshua. Please don't remove such further descriptions. Maybe put them into a section 'specials' or something else or insert this example into the mod_rewrite documen

Re: Vhosts docs

2002-06-15 Thread Joshua Slive
Rich Bowen wrote: A very large percentage of the questions that we get on #apache deal with virtual hosts, and a large number of people say that they have tried to figure out what to do from the documentation, and could not find what they needed. A couple comments: - Most people want to do simple

Vhosts docs

2002-06-15 Thread Rich Bowen
fuses people about the vhosts docs, and I've come up with a few different things. Most of it seems to be that people don't know the right questions to ask, and the docs assume that they do. Part of it is that the examples, while copious, are poorly labelled, and just incomplete enough that peopl