General guidelines

Use the following general guidelines when making changes to the configuration settings:

• There is no order dependency or location dependency for stanzas in any configuration file.
• Stanza entries are marked as required or optional. When an entry is required, the entry must contain a valid key and value.
• Do not change the names of the keys in the configuration files. Changing the name of the key might cause unpredictable results for the servers.
• Stanza entries and key names are case-sensitive. For example, usessl and UseSSL are treated as different entries.
• Spaces are not allowed for names of keys.
• For the key value pair format of key = value, the spaces surrounding the equal sign (=) are not required, but they are recommended.
• Non-printable characters (such as tabs, carriage returns, and line feeds) that occur at the end of a stanza entry are ignored. Non-printable characters are ASCII characters with a decimal value less than 32.

Parent topic: Guidelines for changing configuration files