>>> actually, it's a good item to have in the vhost, the server uses it to >>> present names in the urls instead of ip addresses >> >> I'm surprised it's necessary since I'm not using name-based virtual >> hosting. Should I have ServerName in the port 80 vhost blocks or is >> it sufficient in the SSL blocks? > > without it, the site visitors will only get the ip address url. even on > http sites. Not in 2.2.x by default they won't. See UseCanonicalName. -- Eric Covener covener@xxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx