Apache environment strangeness

[Paul Lussier]

Jim Kuzdrall <gnhlug at intrel.com> writes:

>> [1] googling first more often than not leads to the correct page in
>>     the docs faster than visiting them first and searching there.
>
>     Maybe this is "Google 101" that I should have learned long ago, but 
> I never seem to get want I want that quickly from Google.  (300,000 
> matches takes a while to get through.)  For guidance, what search 
> term(s) did you use to get the above answer so quickly.  Is there a 
> simple general strategy behind your search?  

Yes, I'm extremely explicit in what I search for.  In this particular
case, I googled for 'apache php phpinfo REMOTE_USER' which returned a
link indicating the Apache docs.  I could tell from synopsis of this
link that it probably didn't contain the answer, but it did reflect
that the Apache docs might.  So I immediately went to apache.org,
clicked on the documentation link for the http server version 2.2 and
typed REMOTE_USER into the search box.  That yielded a link directly
to the URL I posted.

So, in this particular case, googling first didn't give me the exact
answer, but it provided a better indication as to where to look.
Before googling I didn't know if REMOTE_USER was a php thing, an HTTP
server thing, or what.  Google told me it was a server thing, so I
looked there.

HTH.
-- 
Seeya,
Paul