<div id="preamble"><h1>Apache Module mod_proxy</h1>
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<table class="module"><tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>HTTP/1.1 proxy/gateway server</td></tr>
</div>
<div id="quickview"><h3 class="directives">Directives</h3>
<ul id="toc">
-<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#allowconnect">AllowCONNECT</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#balancermember">BalancerMember</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#noproxy">NoProxy</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#proxy"><Proxy></a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#proxyblock">ProxyBlock</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#proxydomain">ProxyDomain</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#proxyerroroverride">ProxyErrorOverride</a></li>
-<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#proxyftpdircharset">ProxyFtpDirCharset</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#proxyiobuffersize">ProxyIOBufferSize</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#proxymatch"><ProxyMatch></a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#proxymaxforwards">ProxyMaxForwards</a></li>
</div>
<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
-<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="AllowCONNECT" id="AllowCONNECT">AllowCONNECT</a> <a name="allowconnect" id="allowconnect">Directive</a></h2>
-<table class="directive">
-<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Ports that are allowed to <code>CONNECT</code> through the
-proxy</td></tr>
-<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>AllowCONNECT <var>port</var> [<var>port</var>] ...</code></td></tr>
-<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>AllowCONNECT 443 563</code></td></tr>
-<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host</td></tr>
-<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
-<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_proxy</td></tr>
-</table>
- <p>The <code class="directive">AllowCONNECT</code> directive specifies a list
- of port numbers to which the proxy <code>CONNECT</code> method may
- connect. Today's browsers use this method when a <code>https</code>
- connection is requested and proxy tunneling over HTTP is in effect.</p>
-
- <p>By default, only the default https port (<code>443</code>) and the
- default snews port (<code>563</code>) are enabled. Use the
- <code class="directive">AllowCONNECT</code> directive to override this default and
- allow connections to the listed ports only.</p>
-
- <p>Note that you'll need to have <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_proxy_connect.html">mod_proxy_connect</a></code> present
- in the server in order to get the support for the <code>CONNECT</code> at
- all.</p>
-
-</div>
-<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="BalancerMember" id="BalancerMember">BalancerMember</a> <a name="balancermember" id="balancermember">Directive</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Add a member to a load balancing group</td></tr>
-<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>BalancerMember <var>url</var> [<var>key=value [key=value ...]]</var></code></td></tr>
+<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>BalancerMember [<var>balancerurl</var>] <var>url</var> [<var>key=value [key=value ...]]</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>directory</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_proxy</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>BalancerMember is only available in Apache 2.2
- and later.</td></tr>
+ and later.</td></tr>
</table>
- <p>This directive adds a member to a load balancing group. It must be used
+ <p>This directive adds a member to a load balancing group. It could be used
within a <code><Proxy <var>balancer://</var>...></code> container
- directive, and can take any of the parameters available to
+ directive, and can take any of the key value pair parameters available to
<code class="directive"><a href="#proxypass">ProxyPass</a></code> directives.</p>
<p>One additional parameter is available only to <code class="directive"><a href="#balancermember">BalancerMember</a></code> directives:
<var>loadfactor</var>. This is the member load factor - a number between 1
(default) and 100, which defines the weighted load to be applied to the
member in question.</p>
+ <p>The balancerurl is only needed when not in <code><Proxy <var>balancer://</var>...></code>
+ container directive. It corresponds to the url of a balancer defined in
+ <code class="directive"><a href="#proxypass">ProxyPass</a></code> directive.</p>
</div>
<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
<p>A <dfn>Hostname</dfn> is a fully qualified DNS domain name which can
be resolved to one or more <var><a href="#ipaddr">IPAddrs</a></var> via the
DNS domain name service. It represents a logical host (in contrast to
-
<var><a href="#domain">Domain</a></var>s, see above) and must be resolvable
+ <var><a href="#domain">Domain</a></var>s, see above) and must be resolvable
to at least one <var><a href="#ipaddr">IPAddr</a></var> (or often to a list
of hosts with different <var><a href="#ipaddr">IPAddr</a></var>s).</p>
</code></p></div>
+<h3>See also</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><code class="directive"><a href="#proxymatch"><ProxyMatch></a></code></li>
+</ul>
</div>
<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="ProxyBadHeader" id="ProxyBadHeader">ProxyBadHeader</a> <a name="proxybadheader" id="proxybadheader">Directive</a></h2>
<p>This directive does not affect the processing of informational (1xx),
normal success (2xx), or redirect (3xx) responses.</p>
-</div>
-<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
-<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="ProxyFtpDirCharset" id="ProxyFtpDirCharset">ProxyFtpDirCharset</a> <a name="proxyftpdircharset" id="proxyftpdircharset">Directive</a></h2>
-<table class="directive">
-<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Define the character set for proxied FTP listings</td></tr>
-<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>ProxyFtpDirCharset <var>character set</var></code></td></tr>
-<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>ProxyFtpDirCharset ISO-8859-1</code></td></tr>
-<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory</td></tr>
-<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
-<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_proxy</td></tr>
-<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in Apache 2.2.7 and later</td></tr>
-</table>
- <p>The <code class="directive">ProxyFtpDirCharset</code> directive defines the
- character set to be set for FTP directory listings in HTML generated by
- <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_proxy_ftp.html">mod_proxy_ftp</a></code>.</p>
-
</div>
<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="ProxyIOBufferSize" id="ProxyIOBufferSize">ProxyIOBufferSize</a> <a name="proxyiobuffersize" id="proxyiobuffersize">Directive</a></h2>
</table>
<p>The <code class="directive">ProxyIOBufferSize</code> directive adjusts the size
of the internal buffer, which is used as a scratchpad for the data between
- input and output. The size must be less or equal <code>65536</code>.</p>
+ input and output. The size must be at least <code>512</code>.</p>
<p>In almost every case there's no reason to change that value.</p>
<p>If used with AJP this directive sets the maximum AJP packet size in
identical to the <code class="directive"><a href="#proxy"><Proxy></a></code> directive, except it matches URLs
using <a class="glossarylink" href="../glossary.html#regex" title="see glossary">regular expressions</a>.</p>
+<h3>See also</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><code class="directive"><a href="#proxy"><Proxy></a></code></li>
+</ul>
</div>
<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="ProxyMaxForwards" id="ProxyMaxForwards">ProxyMaxForwards</a> <a name="proxymaxforwards" id="proxymaxforwards">Directive</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Maps remote servers into the local server URL-space</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>ProxyPass [<var>path</var>] !|<var>url</var> [<var>key=value</var>
- <var>[key=value</var> ...]] [nocanon] [interpolate]</code></td></tr>
+ <var>[key=value</var> ...]] [nocanon] [interpolate]</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_proxy</td></tr>
connections in the pool the Apache will return <code>SERVER_BUSY</code>
status to the client.
</td></tr>
+ <tr><td>connectiontimeout</td>
+ <td>timeout</td>
+ <td>Connect timeout in seconds.
+ The number of seconds Apache waits for the creation of a connection to
+ the backend to complete. By adding a postfix of ms the timeout can be
+ also set in milliseconds.
+ </td></tr>
<tr><td>disablereuse</td>
<td>Off</td>
<td>This parameter should be used when you want to force mod_proxy
thus, disable its persistent connection and pool for that backend.
This helps in various situations where a firewall between Apache and
the backend server (regardless of protocol) tends to silently
- drop connections. To disable connection pooling reuse,
+ drop connections or when backends themselves may be under round-
+ robin DNS. To disable connection pooling reuse,
set this property value to <code>On</code>.
</td></tr>
<tr><td>flushpackets</td>
<td>The time to wait for additional input, in milliseconds, before
flushing the output brigade if 'flushpackets' is 'auto'.
</td></tr>
+ <tr><td>iobuffersize</td>
+ <td>8192</td>
+ <td>Adjusts the size of the internal scratchpad IO buffer. This allows you
+ to override the <code class="directive">ProxyIOBufferSize</code> for a specific worker.
+ This must be at least 512 or set to 0 for the system default of 8192.
+ </td></tr>
<tr><td>keepalive</td>
<td>Off</td>
<td>This parameter should be used when you have a firewall between your
which could be an issue, but it will lower the
traffic in case some of the cluster nodes are down or busy.
Currently this has an effect only for AJP.
+ By adding a postfix of ms the delay can be also set in
+ milliseconds.
+ </td></tr>
+ <tr><td>receivebuffersize</td>
+ <td>0</td>
+ <td>Adjusts the size of the explicit (TCP/IP) network buffer size for
+ proxied connections. This allows you to override the
+ <code class="directive">ProxyReceiveBufferSize</code> for a specific worker.
+ This must be at least 512 or set to 0 for the system default.
</td></tr>
<tr><td>redirect</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>Single letter value defining the initial status of
this worker: 'D' is disabled, 'S' is stopped, 'I' is ignore-errors,
- 'H' is hot-standby and 'E' is in an error state. Status
- can be set (which is the default) by prepending with '+' or
+ 'H' is hot-standby and 'E' is in an error state. Status
+ can be set (which is the default) by prepending with '+' or
cleared by prepending with '-'.
Thus, a setting of 'S-E' sets this worker to Stopped and
clears the in-error flag.
</td></tr>
<tr><td>timeout</td>
- <td><code class="directive">Timeout</code></td>
+ <td><code class="directive"><a href="#proxytimeout">ProxyTimeout</a></code></td>
<td>Connection timeout in seconds.
- If not set the Apache will wait until the free connection
- is available. This directive is used for limiting the number
- of connections to the backend server together with <code>max</code>
- parameter.
+ The number of seconds Apache waits for data sent by / to the backend.
</td></tr>
<tr><td>ttl</td>
<td>-</td>
</table>
<p>If the Proxy directive scheme starts with the
- <code>balancer://</code> then a virtual worker that does not really
+ <code>balancer://</code> (eg: <code>balancer://cluster/</code>,
+ any path information is ignored) then a virtual worker that does not really
communicate with the backend server will be created. Instead it is responsible
for the management of several "real" workers. In that case the special set of
parameters can be add to this virtual worker. See <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_proxy_balancer.html">mod_proxy_balancer</a></code>
<td>byrequests</td>
<td>Balancer load-balance method. Select the load-balancing scheduler
method to use. Either <code>byrequests</code>, to perform weighted
- request counting or <code>bytraffic</code>, to perform weighted
- traffic byte count balancing. Default is <code>byrequests</code>.
+ request counting, <code>bytraffic</code>, to perform weighted
+ traffic byte count balancing, or <code>bybusyness</code>, to perform
+ pending request balancing. Default is <code>byrequests</code>.
</td></tr>
<tr><td>maxattempts</td>
<td>1</td>
and url encoded id (like servlet containers) use | to to separate them.
The first part is for the cookie the second for the path.
</td></tr>
+ <tr><td>scolonpathdelim</td>
+ <td>Off</td>
+ <td>If set to <code>On</code> the semi-colon character ';' will be
+ used as an additional sticky session path deliminator/separator. This
+ is mainly used to emulate mod_jk's behavior when dealing with paths such
+ as <code>JSESSIONID=6736bcf34;foo=aabfa</code>
+ </td></tr>
<tr><td>timeout</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>Balancer timeout in seconds. If set this will be the maximum time
</table>
<p>A sample balancer setup</p>
<div class="example"><p><code>
- ProxyPass /special-area http://special.example.com/ smax=5 max=10<br />
+ ProxyPass /special-area http://special.example.com smax=5 max=10<br />
ProxyPass / balancer://mycluster/ stickysession=JSESSIONID|jsessionid nofailover=On<br />
<Proxy balancer://mycluster><br />
<span class="indent">
removes the normal limited protection against URL-based attacks
provided by the proxy.</p>
- <p>The optional <var>interpolate</var> keyword, in combination with
+ <p>The optional <var>interpolate</var> keyword (available in
+ httpd 2.2.9 and later), in combination with
<code class="directive">ProxyPassInterpolateEnv</code> causes the ProxyPass
to interpolate environment variables, using the syntax
<var>${VARNAME}</var>. Note that many of the standard CGI-derived
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_proxy</td></tr>
-<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in trunk only</td></tr>
+<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in httpd 2.2.9 and later</td></tr>
</table>
<p>This directive, together with the <var>interpolate</var> argument to
<code class="directive">ProxyPass</code>, <code class="directive">ProxyPassReverse</code>,
</code></p></div>
<p>will cause a local request for
- <code>http://example.com/mirror/foo/bar.gif</code> to be internally converted
+ <code>http://example.com/foo/bar.gif</code> to be internally converted
into a proxy request to <code>http://backend.example.com/foo/bar.gif</code>.</p>
-
+ <div class="note"><h3>Note</h3>
+ <p>The URL argument must be parsable as a URL <em>before</em> regexp
+ substitutions (as well as after). This limits the matches you can use.
+ For instance, if we had used</p>
+ <div class="example"><p><code>
+ ProxyPassMatch ^(/.*\.gif)$ http://backend.example.com:8000$1
+ </code></p></div>
+ <p>in our previous example, it would fail with a syntax error
+ at server startup. This is a bug (PR 46665 in the ASF bugzilla),
+ and the workaround is to reformulate the match:</p>
+ <div class="example"><p><code>
+ ProxyPassMatch ^/(.*\.gif)$ http://backend.example.com:8000/$1
+ </code></p></div>
+ </div>
<p>The <code>!</code> directive is useful in situations where you don't want
to reverse-proxy a subdirectory.</p>
(<code>RewriteRule ... [P]</code>) from <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code>
because it doesn't depend on a corresponding <code class="directive"><a href="#proxypass">ProxyPass</a></code> directive.</p>
- <p>The optional <var>interpolate</var> keyword, used together with
+ <p>The optional <var>interpolate</var> keyword (available in
+ httpd 2.2.9 and later), used together with
<code class="directive">ProxyPassInterpolateEnv</code>, enables interpolation
of environment variables specified using the format <var>${VARNAME}</var>.
</p>
request</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>ProxyPreserveHost On|Off</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>ProxyPreserveHost Off</code></td></tr>
-<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host</td></tr>
+<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_proxy</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in Apache 2.0.31 and later.</td></tr>
</code></p></div>
<p><var>scheme</var> is effectively the protocol that should be used to
- communicate with the remote server; only <code>http</code> is supported by
- this module.</p>
+ communicate with the remote server; only <code>http</code> and <code>https</code>
+ are supported by this module. When using <code>https</code>, the requests
+ are forwarded through the remote proxy using the HTTP CONNECT method.</p>
<div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><p><code>
- ProxyRemote http://goodguys.com/ http://mirrorguys.com:8000<br />
- ProxyRemote * http://cleversite.com<br />
- ProxyRemote ftp http://ftpproxy.mydomain.com:8080
+ ProxyRemote http://goodguys.example.com/ http://mirrorguys.example.com:8000<br />
+ ProxyRemote * http://cleverproxy.localdomain<br />
+ ProxyRemote ftp http://ftpproxy.mydomain:8080
</code></p></div>
<p>In the last example, the proxy will forward FTP requests, encapsulated
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_proxy</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>ProxySet is only available in Apache 2.2
- and later.</td></tr>
+ and later.</td></tr>
</table>
<p>This directive is used as an alternate method of setting any of the
parameters available to Proxy balancers and workers normally done via the
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Network timeout for proxied requests</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>ProxyTimeout <var>seconds</var></code></td></tr>
-<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>ProxyTimeout 300</code></td></tr>
+<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>Value of <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#timeout">Timeout</a></code></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_proxy</td></tr>
</div>
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