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27 <div id="preamble"><h1>Apache Module mod_substitute</h1>
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29 <p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="../en/mod/mod_substitute.html" title="English">&nbsp;en&nbsp;</a> |
30 <a href="../fr/mod/mod_substitute.html" hreflang="fr" rel="alternate" title="Français">&nbsp;fr&nbsp;</a></p>
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32 <table class="module"><tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Perform search and replace operations on response bodies</td></tr>
33 <tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
34 <tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#ModuleIdentifier">Module Identifier:</a></th><td>substitute_module</td></tr>
35 <tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#SourceFile">Source File:</a></th><td>mod_substitute.c</td></tr></table>
36 <h3>Summary</h3>
37
38     <p><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_substitute.html">mod_substitute</a></code> provides a mechanism to perform
39     both regular expression and fixed string substitutions on
40     response bodies.</p>
41 </div>
42 <div id="quickview"><h3 class="directives">Directives</h3>
43 <ul id="toc">
44 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#substitute">Substitute</a></li>
45 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#substituteinheritbefore">SubstituteInheritBefore</a></li>
46 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#substitutemaxlinelength">SubstituteMaxLineLength</a></li>
47 </ul>
48 <h3>Bugfix checklist</h3><ul class="seealso"><li><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/CHANGES_2.4">httpd changelog</a></li><li><a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&amp;list_id=144532&amp;product=Apache%20httpd-2&amp;query_format=specific&amp;order=changeddate%20DESC%2Cpriority%2Cbug_severity&amp;component=mod_substitute">Known issues</a></li><li><a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Apache%20httpd-2&amp;component=mod_substitute">Report a bug</a></li></ul><h3>See also</h3>
49 <ul class="seealso">
50 <li><a href="#comments_section">Comments</a></li></ul></div>
51
52 <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
53 <div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="Substitute" id="Substitute">Substitute</a> <a name="substitute" id="substitute">Directive</a></h2>
54 <table class="directive">
55 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Pattern to filter the response content</td></tr>
56 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>Substitute <var>s/pattern/substitution/[infq]</var></code></td></tr>
57 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
58 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>FileInfo</td></tr>
59 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
60 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_substitute</td></tr>
61 </table>
62     <p>The <code class="directive">Substitute</code> directive specifies a
63     search and replace pattern to apply to the response body.</p>
64
65     <p>The meaning of the pattern can be modified by using any
66     combination of these flags:</p>
67
68     <dl>
69         <dt><code>i</code></dt>
70         <dd>Perform a case-insensitive match.</dd>
71         <dt><code>n</code></dt>
72         <dd>By default the pattern is treated as a regular expression.
73         Using the <code>n</code> flag forces the pattern to be treated
74         as a fixed string.</dd>
75         <dt><code>f</code></dt>
76         <dd>The <code>f</code> flag causes <code>mod_substitute</code> to flatten the
77         result of a substitution allowing for later substitutions to
78         take place on the boundary of this one. This is the default.</dd>
79         <dt><code>q</code></dt>
80         <dd>The <code>q</code> flag causes <code>mod_substitute</code> to not
81         flatten the buckets after each substitution. This can
82         result in much faster response and a decrease in memory
83         utilization, but should only be used if there is no possibility
84         that the result of one substitution will ever match a pattern
85         or regex of a subsequent one.</dd>
86     </dl>
87
88     <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">&lt;Location "/"&gt;
89     AddOutputFilterByType SUBSTITUTE text/html
90     Substitute "s/foo/bar/ni"
91 &lt;/Location&gt;</pre>
92 </div>
93
94     <p>If either the pattern or the substitution contain a slash
95     character then an alternative delimiter should be used:</p>
96
97     <div class="example"><h3>Example of using an alternate delimiter</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">&lt;Location "/"&gt;
98     AddOutputFilterByType SUBSTITUTE text/html
99     Substitute "s|&lt;BR */?&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;|i"
100 &lt;/Location&gt;</pre>
101 </div>
102
103     <p>Backreferences can be used in the comparison and in the substitution,
104     when regular expressions are used, as illustrated in the following example: </p>
105     <div class="example"><h3>Example of using backreferences and captures</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">&lt;Location "/"&gt;
106     AddOutputFilterByType SUBSTITUTE text/html
107     # "foo=k,bar=k" -&gt; "foo/bar=k"
108     Substitute "s|foo=(\w+),bar=\1|foo/bar=$1"
109 &lt;/Location&gt;</pre>
110 </div>
111
112     <p>A common use scenario for <code>mod_substitute</code> is the
113     situation in which a front-end server proxies requests to a back-end
114     server which returns HTML with hard-coded embedded URLs that refer
115     to the back-end server. These URLs don't work for the end-user,
116     since the back-end server is unreachable.</p>
117
118     <p>In this case, <code>mod_substitute</code> can be used to rewrite
119     those URLs into something that will work from the front end:</p>
120
121     <div class="example"><h3>Rewriting URLs embedded in proxied content</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">ProxyPass        "/blog/" "http://internal.blog.example.com"
122 ProxyPassReverse "/blog/" "http://internal.blog.example.com/"
123
124 Substitute "s|http://internal.blog.example.com/|http://www.example.com/blog/|i"</pre>
125 </div>
126
127     <p><code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_proxy.html#proxypassreverse">ProxyPassReverse</a></code>
128     modifies any <code>Location</code> (redirect) headers that are sent
129     by the back-end server, and, in this example,
130     <code class="directive">Substitute</code> takes care of the rest of the problem by
131     fixing up the HTML response as well.</p>
132
133
134 </div>
135 <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
136 <div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="SubstituteInheritBefore" id="SubstituteInheritBefore">SubstituteInheritBefore</a> <a name="substituteinheritbefore" id="substituteinheritbefore">Directive</a></h2>
137 <table class="directive">
138 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Change the merge order of inherited patterns</td></tr>
139 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>SubstituteInheritBefore on|off</code></td></tr>
140 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>SubstituteInheritBefore on</code></td></tr>
141 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
142 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>FileInfo</td></tr>
143 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
144 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_substitute</td></tr>
145 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in httpd 2.4.17 and later</td></tr>
146 </table>
147     <p>Whether to apply the inherited <code class="directive"><a href="#substitute">Substitute</a></code>
148     patterns first (<code>on</code>), or after the ones of the current
149     context (<code>off</code>).
150     The latter was the default in versions 2.4 and earlier, but changed
151     starting with 2.5, hence <code class="directive">SubstituteInheritBefore</code>
152     set to <code>off</code> allows to restore the legacy behaviour.
153     <code class="directive">SubstituteInheritBefore</code> is itself inherited,
154     hence contexts that inherit it (those that don't specify their own
155     <code class="directive">SubstituteInheritBefore</code> value) will apply the
156     closest defined merge order.</p>
157
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159 <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
160 <div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="SubstituteMaxLineLength" id="SubstituteMaxLineLength">SubstituteMaxLineLength</a> <a name="substitutemaxlinelength" id="substitutemaxlinelength">Directive</a></h2>
161 <table class="directive">
162 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Set the maximum line size</td></tr>
163 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>SubstituteMaxLineLength <var>bytes</var>(b|B|k|K|m|M|g|G)</code></td></tr>
164 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>SubstituteMaxLineLength 1m</code></td></tr>
165 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
166 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>FileInfo</td></tr>
167 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
168 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_substitute</td></tr>
169 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in httpd 2.4.11 and later</td></tr>
170 </table>
171     <p>The maximum line size handled by <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_substitute.html">mod_substitute</a></code>
172     is limited to restrict memory use. The limit can be configured
173     using <code class="directive">SubstituteMaxLineLength</code>.
174     The value can be given as the number of bytes and can be suffixed
175     with a single letter <code>b</code>, <code>B</code>, <code>k</code>,
176     <code>K</code>, <code>m</code>, <code>M</code>, <code>g</code>,
177     <code>G</code> to provide the size in bytes, kilobytes, megabytes
178     or gigabytes respectively.</p>
179
180     <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">&lt;Location "/"&gt;
181     AddOutputFilterByType SUBSTITUTE text/html
182     SubstituteMaxLineLength 10m
183     Substitute "s/foo/bar/ni"
184 &lt;/Location&gt;</pre>
185 </div>
186
187
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