Fix https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48381

Add a note about case of host name

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/trunk@890141 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

diff --git a/webapps/docs/config/host.xml b/webapps/docs/config/host.xml
index e366962..25a16ed 100644 (file)
--- a/webapps/docs/config/host.xml
+++ b/webapps/docs/config/host.xml
@@ -146,11 +146,12 @@
 
       <attribute name="name" required="true">
         <p>Network name of this virtual host, as registered in your
-        <em>Domain Name Service</em> server.  One of the Hosts nested within
-        an <a href="engine.html">Engine</a> MUST have a name that matches the
-        <code>defaultHost</code> setting for that Engine.  See
-        <a href="#Host Name Aliases">Host Name Aliases</a> for information
-        on how to assign more than one network name to the same
+        <em>Domain Name Service</em> server. Regardless of the case used to
+        specify the hostname, Tomcat will convert it to lower case internally.
+        One of the Hosts nested within an <a href="engine.html">Engine</a> MUST
+        have a name that matches the <code>defaultHost</code> setting for that
+        Engine.  See <a href="#Host Name Aliases">Host Name Aliases</a> for
+        information on how to assign more than one network name to the same
         virtual host.</p>
       </attribute>