Configuration Files

Rules About Configuration Files in General

• Comments begin with a pound sign ("#") or a semi-colon (";")in the left-most character.
• The contents are not case sensitive.
• Extra white space (tabs and spaces) will be ignored.
• One directive can appear on each line.
• Most directives can only have one entry in a configuration file. If one of these directives appears more than once in a configuration file, the last value will be used.

Authority

The user profile of the person starting or reconfiguring the server must have read access to all configuration files. The user profile of the server does not need read access to any configuration files.

If the configuration commands are used to change the configuration, the user that runs them must have write access to the configuration files, as well as the temporary (*.tmp) and backup (*.bak) that are created by those commands.

Specific Configuration Files

• Master server configuration file
• Alias configuration file
• Directory based configuration file
• Webulator User configuration file