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h3>Apache HTTP Server Version 2.0</
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h1 align="center">Apache Module mod_speling</
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span class="help">Description:</
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td>Attempts to correct mistaken URLs that
474N/Ausers might have entered by ignoring capitalization and by
474N/Aallowing up to one misspelling</
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td>Extension</
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td>speling_module</
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h2>Summary</
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p>Requests to documents sometimes cannot be served by the core
474N/A apache server because the request was misspelled or
474N/A miscapitalized. This module addresses this problem by trying to
474N/A find a matching document, even after all other modules gave up.
474N/A It does its work by comparing each document name in the
474N/A requested directory against the requested document name
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strong>without regard to case</
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strong>up to one misspelling</
strong> (character insertion /
474N/A omission / transposition or wrong character). A list is built
474N/A with all document names which were matched using this
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p>If, after scanning the directory,</
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li>no matching document was found, Apache will proceed as
474N/A usual and return a "document not found" error.</
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li>only one document is found that "almost" matches the
474N/A request, then it is returned in the form of a redirection
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li>more than one document with a close match was found, then
474N/A the list of the matches is returned to the client, and the
474N/A client can select the correct candidate.</
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a name="CheckSpelling">CheckSpelling</
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strong>Description: </
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td>Enables the spelling
474N/Amodule</
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td>CheckSpelling on|off</
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code>CheckSpelling Off</
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td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</
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td>Extension</
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td>mod_speling</
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td>CheckSpelling was available as a separately available
474N/Amodule for Apache 1.1, but was limited to miscapitalizations. As
474N/Aof Apache 1.3, it is part of the Apache distribution. Prior to Apache
474N/A1.3.2, the CheckSpelling directive was only available in the
474N/A"server" and "virtual host" contexts.</
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p>This directive enables or disables the spelling module. When
474N/A enabled, keep in mind that</
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li>the directory scan which is necessary for the spelling
474N/A correction will have an impact on the server's performance
474N/A when many spelling corrections have to be performed at the
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li>the document trees should not contain sensitive files
474N/A which could be matched inadvertently by a spelling
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li>the module is unable to correct misspelled user names (as
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li>spelling corrections apply strictly to existing files, so
474N/A a request for the <
code><Location /status></
code> may
474N/A get incorrectly treated as the negotiated file
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