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List:       apache-docs
Subject:    Re: Error messages
From:       Mark Watts <m.watts () eris ! qinetiq ! com>
Date:       2010-04-20 8:22:21
Message-ID: 1271751741.20171.1.camel () mwatts ! eris ! qinetiq ! com
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On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 14:40 -0400, Rich Bowen wrote:
> > If that won't fly, how about instead of URLs, adding message numbers?
> >
> > E.g.
> >
> > HTTP0023: NameVirtualHost %s:%u has no VirtualHosts...
> >
> > and add a section to the doc with the explanatory web pages for
> > each message.
> 
> My initial response is ick, but it would make for higher Google- 
> ability. I'll have to ponder on that one for a bit.

Many commercial applications do this (Oracle springs to mind) and I
think it works well for the most part.
The key trick is making sure the error code reference contains *all* of
the solutions to problems that the code applies to.

Mark.

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