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diff --git a/doc/guide.tex b/doc/guide.tex index b299bae15..3ef458988 100644 --- a/doc/guide.tex +++ b/doc/guide.tex @@ -458,10 +458,17 @@ Instructions to create an initial administrator account: \ind{configuration file} The configuration file will be loaded the first time you start \ejabberd{}. The -content from this file will be parsed and stored in a database. Subsequently the +content from this file will be parsed and stored in the internal ejabberd database. Subsequently the configuration will be loaded from the database and any commands in the -configuration file are appended to the entries in the database. The -configuration file contains a sequence of Erlang terms. Lines beginning with a +configuration file are appended to the entries in the database. + +Note that ejabberd never edits the configuration file. +So, the configuration changes done using the web interface +are stored in the database, but are not reflected in the configuration file. +If you want those changes to be use after ejabberd restart, you can either +edit the configuration file, or remove all its content. + +The configuration file contains a sequence of Erlang terms. Lines beginning with a \term{`\%'} sign are ignored. Each term is a tuple of which the first element is the name of an option, and any further elements are that option's values. If the configuration file do not contain for instance the `hosts' option, the old |