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27 <div id="preamble"><h1>Apache Module mod_substitute</h1>
29 <p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="../en/mod/mod_substitute.html" title="English"> en </a> |
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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>
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
42 <div id="quickview"><h3 class="directives">Directives</h3>
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>
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__&list_id=144532&product=Apache%20httpd-2&query_format=specific&order=changeddate%20DESC%2Cpriority%2Cbug_severity&component=mod_substitute">Known issues</a></li><li><a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Apache%20httpd-2&component=mod_substitute">Report a bug</a></li></ul><h3>See also</h3>
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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>
62 <p>The <code class="directive">Substitute</code> directive specifies a
63 search and replace pattern to apply to the response body.</p>
65 <p>The meaning of the pattern can be modified by using any
66 combination of these flags:</p>
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>
88 <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config"><Location "/">
89 AddOutputFilterByType SUBSTITUTE text/html
90 Substitute "s/foo/bar/ni"
91 </Location></pre>
94 <p>If either the pattern or the substitution contain a slash
95 character then an alternative delimiter should be used:</p>
97 <div class="example"><h3>Example of using an alternate delimiter</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config"><Location "/">
98 AddOutputFilterByType SUBSTITUTE text/html
99 Substitute "s|<BR */?>|<br />|i"
100 </Location></pre>
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"><Location "/">
106 AddOutputFilterByType SUBSTITUTE text/html
107 # "foo=k,bar=k" -> "foo/bar=k"
108 Substitute "s|foo=(\w+),bar=\1|foo/bar=$1"
109 </Location></pre>
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>
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>
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/"
124 Substitute "s|http://internal.blog.example.com/|http://www.example.com/blog/|i"</pre>
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>
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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>
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>
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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>
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>
180 <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config"><Location "/">
181 AddOutputFilterByType SUBSTITUTE text/html
182 SubstituteMaxLineLength 10m
183 Substitute "s/foo/bar/ni"
184 </Location></pre>
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