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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="AcceptFilter" id="AcceptFilter">AcceptFilter</a> <a name="acceptfilter" id="acceptfilter">Directive</a></h2>
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<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Configures optimizations for a Protocol's Listener Sockets</td></tr>
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<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>AcceptFilter <var>protocol</var> <var>accept_filter</var></code></td></tr>
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<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
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<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
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<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
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<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in Apache httpd 2.1.5 and later.
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On Windows from Apache httpd 2.3.3 and later.</td></tr>
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    <p>This directive enables operating system specific optimizations for a
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       listening socket by the <code class="directive">Protocol</code>type.
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       The basic premise is for the kernel to not send a socket to the server
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       process until either data is received or an entire HTTP Request is buffered.
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       Only <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=accept_filter&sektion=9">
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       FreeBSD's Accept Filters</a>, Linux's more primitive
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       <code>TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT</code>, and Windows' optimized AcceptEx()
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       are currently supported.</p>
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    <p>Using <code>none</code> for an argument will disable any accept filters
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       for that protocol.  This is useful for protocols that require a server
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       send data first, such as <code>ftp:</code> or <code>nntp</code>:</p>
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    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
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    AcceptFilter nntp none
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    <p>The default protocol names are <code>https</code> for port 443
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       and <code>http</code> for all other ports.  To specify another protocol
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       is being used with a listening port, add the <var>protocol</var>
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       argument to the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mpm_common.html#listen">Listen</a></code>
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       directive.</p>
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    <p>The default values on FreeBSD are:</p>
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    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
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AcceptFilter http httpready
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AcceptFilter https dataready
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    </pre>
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    <p>The <code>httpready</code> accept filter buffers entire HTTP requests at
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       the kernel level.  Once an entire request is received, the kernel then
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       sends it to the server. See the
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       <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=accf_http&sektion=9">
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       accf_http(9)</a> man page for more details.  Since HTTPS requests are
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       encrypted only the <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=accf_data&sektion=9">
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       accf_data(9)</a> filter is used.</p>
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    <p>The default values on Linux are:</p>
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    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
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AcceptFilter http data
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AcceptFilter https data
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    </pre>
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    <p>Linux's <code>TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT</code> does not support buffering http
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       requests.  Any value besides <code>none</code> will enable
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       <code>TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT</code> on that listener. For more details
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       see the Linux
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       <a href="http://homepages.cwi.nl/~aeb/linux/man2html/man7/tcp.7.html">
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       tcp(7)</a> man page.</p>
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    <p>The default values on Windows are:</p>
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    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
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AcceptFilter http data
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AcceptFilter https data
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    </pre>
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    <p>Window's mpm_winnt interprets the AcceptFilter to toggle the AcceptEx()
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       API, and does not support http protocol buffering.  There are two values
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       which utilize the Windows AcceptEx() API and will recycle network
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       sockets between connections.  <code>data</code> waits until data has
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       been transmitted as documented above, and the initial data buffer and
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       network endpoint addresses are all retrieved from the single AcceptEx()
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       invocation.  <code>connect</code> will use the AcceptEx() API, also
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       retrieve the network endpoint addresses, but like <code>none</code>
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       the <code>connect</code> option does not wait for the initial data
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       transmission.</p>
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    <p>On Windows, <code>none</code> uses accept() rather than AcceptEx()
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       and will not recycle sockets between connections.  This is useful for
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       network adapters with broken driver support, as well as some virtual
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       network providers such as vpn drivers, or spam, virus or spyware
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       filters.</p>
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<h3>See also</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><code class="directive"><a href="#protocol">Protocol</a></code></li>
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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="AcceptPathInfo" id="AcceptPathInfo">AcceptPathInfo</a> <a name="acceptpathinfo" id="acceptpathinfo">Directive</a></h2>
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<table class="directive">
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<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Resources accept trailing pathname information</td></tr>
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<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>AcceptPathInfo On|Off|Default</code></td></tr>
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<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>AcceptPathInfo Default</code></td></tr>
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<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
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<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>FileInfo</td></tr>
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<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
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<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
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<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in Apache httpd 2.0.30 and later</td></tr>
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</table>
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    <p>This directive controls whether requests that contain trailing
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    pathname information that follows an actual filename (or
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    non-existent file in an existing directory) will be accepted or
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    rejected.  The trailing pathname information can be made
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    available to scripts in the <code>PATH_INFO</code> environment
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    variable.</p>
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    <p>For example, assume the location <code>/test/</code> points to
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    a directory that contains only the single file
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    <code>here.html</code>.  Then requests for
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    <code>/test/here.html/more</code> and
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    <code>/test/nothere.html/more</code> both collect
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    <code>/more</code> as <code>PATH_INFO</code>.</p>
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    <p>The three possible arguments for the
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    <code class="directive">AcceptPathInfo</code> directive are:</p>
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    <dl>
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    <dt><code>Off</code></dt><dd>A request will only be accepted if it
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    maps to a literal path that exists.  Therefore a request with
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    trailing pathname information after the true filename such as
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    <code>/test/here.html/more</code> in the above example will return
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    a 404 NOT FOUND error.</dd>
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    <dt><code>On</code></dt><dd>A request will be accepted if a
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    leading path component maps to a file that exists.  The above
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    example <code>/test/here.html/more</code> will be accepted if
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    <code>/test/here.html</code> maps to a valid file.</dd>
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    <dt><code>Default</code></dt><dd>The treatment of requests with
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    trailing pathname information is determined by the <a href="../handler.html">handler</a> responsible for the request.
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    The core handler for normal files defaults to rejecting
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    <code>PATH_INFO</code> requests. Handlers that serve scripts, such as <a href="mod_cgi.html">cgi-script</a> and <a href="mod_isapi.html">isapi-handler</a>, generally accept
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    <code>PATH_INFO</code> by default.</dd>
 | 
						||
    </dl>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The primary purpose of the <code>AcceptPathInfo</code>
 | 
						||
    directive is to allow you to override the handler's choice of
 | 
						||
    accepting or rejecting <code>PATH_INFO</code>. This override is required,
 | 
						||
    for example, when you use a <a href="../filter.html">filter</a>, such
 | 
						||
    as <a href="mod_include.html">INCLUDES</a>, to generate content
 | 
						||
    based on <code>PATH_INFO</code>.  The core handler would usually reject
 | 
						||
    the request, so you can use the following configuration to enable
 | 
						||
    such a script:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<Files "mypaths.shtml">
 | 
						||
  Options +Includes
 | 
						||
  SetOutputFilter INCLUDES
 | 
						||
  AcceptPathInfo On
 | 
						||
</Files>
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
 | 
						||
<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="AccessFileName" id="AccessFileName">AccessFileName</a> <a name="accessfilename" id="accessfilename">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Name of the distributed configuration file</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>AccessFileName <var>filename</var> [<var>filename</var>] ...</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>AccessFileName .htaccess</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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>While processing a request the server looks for
 | 
						||
    the first existing configuration file from this list of names in
 | 
						||
    every directory of the path to the document, if distributed
 | 
						||
    configuration files are <a href="#allowoverride">enabled for that
 | 
						||
    directory</a>. For example:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">AccessFileName .acl</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>before returning the document
 | 
						||
    <code>/usr/local/web/index.html</code>, the server will read
 | 
						||
    <code>/.acl</code>, <code>/usr/.acl</code>,
 | 
						||
    <code>/usr/local/.acl</code> and <code>/usr/local/web/.acl</code>
 | 
						||
    for directives, unless they have been disabled with</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<Directory />
 | 
						||
    AllowOverride None
 | 
						||
</Directory>
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#allowoverride">AllowOverride</a></code></li>
 | 
						||
<li><a href="../configuring.html">Configuration Files</a></li>
 | 
						||
<li><a href="../howto/htaccess.html">.htaccess Files</a></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="AddDefaultCharset" id="AddDefaultCharset">AddDefaultCharset</a> <a name="adddefaultcharset" id="adddefaultcharset">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Default charset parameter to be added when a response
 | 
						||
content-type is <code>text/plain</code> or <code>text/html</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>AddDefaultCharset On|Off|<var>charset</var></code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>AddDefaultCharset Off</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>FileInfo</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>This directive specifies a default value for the media type
 | 
						||
    charset parameter (the name of a character encoding) to be added
 | 
						||
    to a response if and only if the response's content-type is either
 | 
						||
    <code>text/plain</code> or <code>text/html</code>.  This should override
 | 
						||
    any charset specified in the body of the response via a <code>META</code>
 | 
						||
    element, though the exact behavior is often dependent on the user's client
 | 
						||
    configuration. A setting of <code>AddDefaultCharset Off</code>
 | 
						||
    disables this functionality. <code>AddDefaultCharset On</code> enables
 | 
						||
    a default charset of <code>iso-8859-1</code>. Any other value is assumed
 | 
						||
    to be the <var>charset</var> to be used, which should be one of the
 | 
						||
    <a href="http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets">IANA registered
 | 
						||
    charset values</a> for use in Internet media types (MIME types).
 | 
						||
    For example:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">AddDefaultCharset utf-8</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p><code class="directive">AddDefaultCharset</code> should only be used when all
 | 
						||
    of the text resources to which it applies are known to be in that
 | 
						||
    character encoding and it is too inconvenient to label their charset
 | 
						||
    individually. One such example is to add the charset parameter
 | 
						||
    to resources containing generated content, such as legacy CGI
 | 
						||
    scripts, that might be vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks
 | 
						||
    due to user-provided data being included in the output.  Note, however,
 | 
						||
    that a better solution is to just fix (or delete) those scripts, since
 | 
						||
    setting a default charset does not protect users that have enabled
 | 
						||
    the "auto-detect character encoding" feature on their browser.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_mime.html#addcharset">AddCharset</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="AllowEncodedSlashes" id="AllowEncodedSlashes">AllowEncodedSlashes</a> <a name="allowencodedslashes" id="allowencodedslashes">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Determines whether encoded path separators in URLs are allowed to
 | 
						||
be passed through</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>AllowEncodedSlashes On|Off|NoDecode</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>AllowEncodedSlashes 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#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in Apache httpd 2.0.46 and later.
 | 
						||
NoDecode option available in 2.3.12 and later.</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive">AllowEncodedSlashes</code> directive allows URLs
 | 
						||
    which contain encoded path separators (<code>%2F</code> for <code>/</code>
 | 
						||
    and additionally <code>%5C</code> for <code>\</code> on according systems)
 | 
						||
    to be used in the path info.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>With the default value, <code>Off</code>, such URLs are refused
 | 
						||
    with a 404 (Not found) error.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>With the value <code>On</code>, such URLs are accepted, and encoded
 | 
						||
      slashes are decoded like all other encoded characters.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>With the value <code>NoDecode</code>, such URLs are accepted, but
 | 
						||
      encoded slashes are not decoded but left in their encoded state.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Turning <code class="directive">AllowEncodedSlashes</code> <code>On</code> is
 | 
						||
    mostly useful when used in conjunction with <code>PATH_INFO</code>.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="note"><h3>Note</h3>
 | 
						||
      <p>If encoded slashes are needed in path info, use of <code>NoDecode</code> is
 | 
						||
      strongly recommended as a security measure.  Allowing slashes
 | 
						||
      to be decoded could potentially allow unsafe paths.</p>
 | 
						||
    </div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#acceptpathinfo">AcceptPathInfo</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="AllowOverride" id="AllowOverride">AllowOverride</a> <a name="allowoverride" id="allowoverride">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Types of directives that are allowed in
 | 
						||
<code>.htaccess</code> files</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>AllowOverride All|None|<var>directive-type</var>
 | 
						||
[<var>directive-type</var>] ...</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>AllowOverride None (2.3.9 and later), AllowOverride All (2.3.8 and earlier)</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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>When the server finds an <code>.htaccess</code> file (as
 | 
						||
    specified by <code class="directive"><a href="#accessfilename">AccessFileName</a></code>)
 | 
						||
    it needs to know which directives declared in that file can override
 | 
						||
    earlier configuration directives.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="note"><h3>Only available in <Directory> sections</h3>
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive">AllowOverride</code> is valid only in
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><a href="#directory"><Directory></a></code>
 | 
						||
    sections specified without regular expressions, not in <code class="directive"><a href="#location"><Location></a></code>, <code class="directive"><a href="#directorymatch"><DirectoryMatch></a></code> or
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><a href="#files"><Files></a></code> sections.
 | 
						||
    </div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>When this directive is set to <code>None</code> and <code class="directive"><a href="#allowoverridelist">AllowOverrideList</a></code> is set to
 | 
						||
    <code>None</code> <a href="#accessfilename">.htaccess</a> files are
 | 
						||
    completely ignored. In this case, the server will not even attempt
 | 
						||
    to read <code>.htaccess</code> files in the filesystem.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>When this directive is set to <code>All</code>, then any
 | 
						||
    directive which has the .htaccess <a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context</a> is allowed in
 | 
						||
    <code>.htaccess</code> files.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The <var>directive-type</var> can be one of the following
 | 
						||
    groupings of directives.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <dl>
 | 
						||
      <dt>AuthConfig</dt>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dd>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      Allow use of the authorization directives (<code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_dbm.html#authdbmgroupfile">AuthDBMGroupFile</a></code>,
 | 
						||
      <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_dbm.html#authdbmuserfile">AuthDBMUserFile</a></code>,
 | 
						||
      <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_groupfile.html#authgroupfile">AuthGroupFile</a></code>,
 | 
						||
      <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_core.html#authname">AuthName</a></code>,
 | 
						||
      <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_core.html#authtype">AuthType</a></code>, <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_file.html#authuserfile">AuthUserFile</a></code>, <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_core.html#require">Require</a></code>, <em>etc.</em>).</dd>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dt>FileInfo</dt>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dd>
 | 
						||
      Allow use of the directives controlling document types
 | 
						||
     (<code class="directive"><a href="#errordocument">ErrorDocument</a></code>,
 | 
						||
      <code class="directive"><a href="#forcetype">ForceType</a></code>,
 | 
						||
      <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_negotiation.html#languagepriority">LanguagePriority</a></code>,
 | 
						||
      <code class="directive"><a href="#sethandler">SetHandler</a></code>,
 | 
						||
      <code class="directive"><a href="#setinputfilter">SetInputFilter</a></code>,
 | 
						||
      <code class="directive"><a href="#setoutputfilter">SetOutputFilter</a></code>, and
 | 
						||
      <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_mime.html">mod_mime</a></code> Add* and Remove* directives),
 | 
						||
      document meta data (<code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_headers.html#header">Header</a></code>, <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_headers.html#requestheader">RequestHeader</a></code>, <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_setenvif.html#setenvif">SetEnvIf</a></code>, <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_setenvif.html#setenvifnocase">SetEnvIfNoCase</a></code>, <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_setenvif.html#browsermatch">BrowserMatch</a></code>, <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_usertrack.html#cookieexpires">CookieExpires</a></code>, <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_usertrack.html#cookiedomain">CookieDomain</a></code>, <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_usertrack.html#cookiestyle">CookieStyle</a></code>, <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_usertrack.html#cookietracking">CookieTracking</a></code>, <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_usertrack.html#cookiename">CookieName</a></code>),
 | 
						||
      <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code> directives (<code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriteengine">RewriteEngine</a></code>, <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriteoptions">RewriteOptions</a></code>, <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritebase">RewriteBase</a></code>, <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritecond">RewriteCond</a></code>, <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriterule">RewriteRule</a></code>),
 | 
						||
      <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_alias.html">mod_alias</a></code> directives (<code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_alias.html#redirect">Redirect</a></code>, <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_alias.html#redirecttemp">RedirectTemp</a></code>, <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_alias.html#redirectpermanent">RedirectPermanent</a></code>, <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_alias.html#redirectmatch">RedirectMatch</a></code>), and
 | 
						||
      <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_actions.html#action">Action</a></code> from
 | 
						||
      <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_actions.html">mod_actions</a></code>.
 | 
						||
      </dd>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dt>Indexes</dt>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dd>
 | 
						||
      Allow use of the directives controlling directory indexing
 | 
						||
      (<code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_autoindex.html#adddescription">AddDescription</a></code>,
 | 
						||
      <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_autoindex.html#addicon">AddIcon</a></code>, <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_autoindex.html#addiconbyencoding">AddIconByEncoding</a></code>,
 | 
						||
      <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_autoindex.html#addiconbytype">AddIconByType</a></code>,
 | 
						||
      <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_autoindex.html#defaulticon">DefaultIcon</a></code>, <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_dir.html#directoryindex">DirectoryIndex</a></code>, <a href="mod_autoindex.html#indexoptions.fancyindexing"><code>FancyIndexing</code></a>, <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_autoindex.html#headername">HeaderName</a></code>, <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_autoindex.html#indexignore">IndexIgnore</a></code>, <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_autoindex.html#indexoptions">IndexOptions</a></code>, <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_autoindex.html#readmename">ReadmeName</a></code>,
 | 
						||
      <em>etc.</em>).</dd>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dt>Limit</dt>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dd>
 | 
						||
      Allow use of the directives controlling host access (<code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_access_compat.html#allow">Allow</a></code>, <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_access_compat.html#deny">Deny</a></code> and <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_access_compat.html#order">Order</a></code>).</dd>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dt>Nonfatal=[Override|Unknown|All]</dt>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dd>
 | 
						||
      Allow use of AllowOverride option to treat syntax errors in
 | 
						||
      .htaccess as non-fatal: instead of causing an Internal Server
 | 
						||
      Error, disallowed or unrecognised directives will be ignored
 | 
						||
      and a warning logged:
 | 
						||
      <ul>
 | 
						||
          <li><strong>Nonfatal=Override</strong> treats directives
 | 
						||
              forbidden by AllowOverride as non-fatal.</li>
 | 
						||
          <li><strong>Nonfatal=Unknown</strong> treats unknown directives
 | 
						||
              as non-fatal.  This covers typos and directives implemented
 | 
						||
              by a module that's not present.</li>
 | 
						||
          <li><strong>Nonfatal=All</strong> treats both the above as non-fatal.</li>
 | 
						||
      </ul>
 | 
						||
      <p>Note that a syntax error in a valid directive will still cause
 | 
						||
      an internal server error.</p>
 | 
						||
      <div class="warning"><h3>Security</h3>
 | 
						||
          Nonfatal errors may have security implications for .htaccess users.
 | 
						||
          For example, if AllowOverride disallows AuthConfig, users'
 | 
						||
          configuration designed to restrict access to a site will be disabled.
 | 
						||
      </div>
 | 
						||
      </dd>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dt>Options[=<var>Option</var>,...]</dt>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dd>
 | 
						||
      Allow use of the directives controlling specific directory
 | 
						||
      features (<code class="directive"><a href="#options">Options</a></code> and
 | 
						||
      <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_include.html#xbithack">XBitHack</a></code>).
 | 
						||
      An equal sign may be given followed by a comma (but no spaces)
 | 
						||
      separated lists of options that may be set using the <code class="directive"><a href="#options">Options</a></code> command.
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <div class="note"><h3>Implicit disabling of Options</h3>
 | 
						||
      <p>Even though the list of options that may be used in .htaccess files
 | 
						||
         can be limited with this directive, as long as any <code class="directive"><a href="#options">Options</a></code> directive is allowed any
 | 
						||
         other inherited option can be disabled by using the non-relative
 | 
						||
         syntax.  In other words, this mechanism cannot force a specific option
 | 
						||
         to remain <em>set</em> while allowing any others to be set.
 | 
						||
      </p></div>
 | 
						||
      </dd>
 | 
						||
    </dl>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Example:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">AllowOverride AuthConfig Indexes</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>In the example above all directives that are neither in the group
 | 
						||
    <code>AuthConfig</code> nor <code>Indexes</code> cause an internal
 | 
						||
    server error.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="note"><p>For security and performance reasons, do not set
 | 
						||
    <code>AllowOverride</code> to anything other than <code>None</code>
 | 
						||
    in your <code><Directory /></code> block. Instead, find (or
 | 
						||
    create) the <code><Directory></code> block that refers to the
 | 
						||
    directory where you're actually planning to place a
 | 
						||
    <code>.htaccess</code> file.</p>
 | 
						||
    </div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#accessfilename">AccessFileName</a></code></li>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#allowoverridelist">AllowOverrideList</a></code></li>
 | 
						||
<li><a href="../configuring.html">Configuration Files</a></li>
 | 
						||
<li><a href="../howto/htaccess.html">.htaccess Files</a></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="AllowOverrideList" id="AllowOverrideList">AllowOverrideList</a> <a name="allowoverridelist" id="allowoverridelist">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Individual directives that are allowed in
 | 
						||
<code>.htaccess</code> files</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>AllowOverrideList None|<var>directive</var>
 | 
						||
[<var>directive-type</var>] ...</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>AllowOverrideList None</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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>When the server finds an <code>.htaccess</code> file (as
 | 
						||
    specified by <code class="directive"><a href="#accessfilename">AccessFileName</a></code>)
 | 
						||
    it needs to know which directives declared in that file can override
 | 
						||
    earlier configuration directives.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="note"><h3>Only available in <Directory> sections</h3>
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive">AllowOverrideList</code> is valid only in
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><a href="#directory"><Directory></a></code>
 | 
						||
    sections specified without regular expressions, not in <code class="directive"><a href="#location"><Location></a></code>, <code class="directive"><a href="#directorymatch"><DirectoryMatch></a></code> or
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><a href="#files"><Files></a></code> sections.
 | 
						||
    </div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>When this directive is set to <code>None</code> and <code class="directive"><a href="#allowoverride">AllowOverride</a></code> is set to <code>None</code>,
 | 
						||
    then <a href="#accessfilename">.htaccess</a> files are completely
 | 
						||
    ignored.  In this case, the server will not even attempt to read
 | 
						||
    <code>.htaccess</code> files in the filesystem.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Example:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
AllowOverride None
 | 
						||
AllowOverrideList Redirect RedirectMatch
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>In the example above only the <code>Redirect</code> and
 | 
						||
    <code>RedirectMatch</code> directives are allowed. All others will
 | 
						||
    cause an internal server error.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Example:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
AllowOverride AuthConfig
 | 
						||
AllowOverrideList CookieTracking CookieName
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>In the example above <code class="directive"><a href="#allowoverride
    ">AllowOverride
 | 
						||
    </a></code> grants permission to the <code>AuthConfig</code>
 | 
						||
    directive grouping and <code class="directive">AllowOverrideList</code> grants
 | 
						||
    permission to only two directves from the <code>FileInfo</code> directive
 | 
						||
    grouping. All others will cause an internal server error.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#accessfilename">AccessFileName</a></code></li>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#allowoverride">AllowOverride</a></code></li>
 | 
						||
<li><a href="../configuring.html">Configuration Files</a></li>
 | 
						||
<li><a href="../howto/htaccess.html">.htaccess Files</a></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="CGIMapExtension" id="CGIMapExtension">CGIMapExtension</a> <a name="cgimapextension" id="cgimapextension">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Technique for locating the interpreter for CGI
 | 
						||
scripts</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>CGIMapExtension <var>cgi-path</var> <var>.extension</var></code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>FileInfo</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>NetWare only</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>This directive is used to control how Apache httpd finds the
 | 
						||
    interpreter used to run CGI scripts. For example, setting
 | 
						||
    <code>CGIMapExtension sys:\foo.nlm .foo</code> will
 | 
						||
    cause all CGI script files with a <code>.foo</code> extension to
 | 
						||
    be passed to the FOO interpreter.</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="ContentDigest" id="ContentDigest">ContentDigest</a> <a name="contentdigest" id="contentdigest">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Enables the generation of <code>Content-MD5</code> HTTP Response
 | 
						||
headers</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>ContentDigest On|Off</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>ContentDigest Off</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>Options</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>This directive enables the generation of
 | 
						||
    <code>Content-MD5</code> headers as defined in RFC1864
 | 
						||
    respectively RFC2616.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>MD5 is an algorithm for computing a "message digest"
 | 
						||
    (sometimes called "fingerprint") of arbitrary-length data, with
 | 
						||
    a high degree of confidence that any alterations in the data
 | 
						||
    will be reflected in alterations in the message digest.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code>Content-MD5</code> header provides an end-to-end
 | 
						||
    message integrity check (MIC) of the entity-body. A proxy or
 | 
						||
    client may check this header for detecting accidental
 | 
						||
    modification of the entity-body in transit. Example header:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="example"><p><code>
 | 
						||
      Content-MD5: AuLb7Dp1rqtRtxz2m9kRpA==
 | 
						||
    </code></p></div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Note that this can cause performance problems on your server
 | 
						||
    since the message digest is computed on every request (the
 | 
						||
    values are not cached).</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p><code>Content-MD5</code> is only sent for documents served
 | 
						||
    by the <code class="module"><a href="../mod/core.html">core</a></code>, and not by any module. For example,
 | 
						||
    SSI documents, output from CGI scripts, and byte range responses
 | 
						||
    do not have this header.</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="DefaultRuntimeDir" id="DefaultRuntimeDir">DefaultRuntimeDir</a> <a name="defaultruntimedir" id="defaultruntimedir">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Base directory for the server run-time files</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>DefaultRuntimeDir <var>directory-path</var></code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>DefaultRuntimeDir DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR (logs/)</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive">DefaultRuntimeDir</code> directive sets the
 | 
						||
    directory in which the server will create various run-time files
 | 
						||
    (shared memory, locks, etc.). If set as a relative path, the full path
 | 
						||
    will be relative to <code class="directive">ServerRoot</code>.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p><strong>Example</strong></p>
 | 
						||
   <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
DefaultRuntimeDir scratch/
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The default location of <code class="directive">DefaultRuntimeDir</code> may be
 | 
						||
    modified by changing the <code>DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR</code> #define
 | 
						||
    at build time.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
   <p>Note: <code class="directive">ServerRoot</code> should be specified before this
 | 
						||
   directive is used, otherwise the default value of <code class="directive">ServerRoot</code>
 | 
						||
   would be used to set the base directory.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><a href="../misc/security_tips.html#serverroot">the
 | 
						||
    security tips</a> for information on how to properly set
 | 
						||
    permissions on the <code class="directive">ServerRoot</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="DefaultType" id="DefaultType">DefaultType</a> <a name="defaulttype" id="defaulttype">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>This directive has no effect other than to emit warnings
 | 
						||
if the value is not <code>none</code>. In prior versions, DefaultType
 | 
						||
would specify a default media type to assign to response content for
 | 
						||
which no other media type configuration could be found.
 | 
						||
</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>DefaultType <var>media-type|none</var></code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>DefaultType none</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>FileInfo</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>The argument <code>none</code> is available in Apache httpd 2.2.7 and later.  All other choices are DISABLED for 2.3.x and later.</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>This directive has been disabled.  For backwards compatibility
 | 
						||
    of configuration files, it may be specified with the value
 | 
						||
    <code>none</code>, meaning no default media type. For example:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">DefaultType None</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p><code>DefaultType None</code> is only available in
 | 
						||
    httpd-2.2.7 and later.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Use the mime.types configuration file and the
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_mime.html#addtype">AddType</a></code> to configure media
 | 
						||
    type assignments via file extensions, or the
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><a href="#forcetype">ForceType</a></code> directive to configure
 | 
						||
    the media type for specific resources. Otherwise, the server will
 | 
						||
    send the response without a Content-Type header field and the
 | 
						||
    recipient may attempt to guess the media type.</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="Define" id="Define">Define</a> <a name="define" id="define">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Define a variable</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>Define <var>parameter-name</var> [<var>parameter-value</var>]</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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>In its one parameter form, <code class="directive">Define</code> is equivalent
 | 
						||
    to passing the <code>-D</code> argument to <code class="program"><a href="../programs/httpd.html">httpd</a></code>. It
 | 
						||
    can be used to toggle the use of
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><a href="#ifdefine"><IfDefine></a></code> sections
 | 
						||
    without needing to alter <code>-D</code> arguments in any startup
 | 
						||
    scripts.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>In addition to that, if the second parameter is given, a config variable
 | 
						||
    is set to this value. The variable can be used in the configuration using
 | 
						||
    the <code>${VAR}</code> syntax. The variable is always globally defined
 | 
						||
    and not limited to the scope of the surrounding config section.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<IfDefine TEST>
 | 
						||
  Define servername test.example.com
 | 
						||
</IfDefine>
 | 
						||
<IfDefine !TEST>
 | 
						||
  Define servername www.example.com
 | 
						||
  Define SSL
 | 
						||
</IfDefine>
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Variable names may not contain colon ":" characters, to avoid clashes
 | 
						||
    with <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritemap">RewriteMap</a></code>'s syntax.</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="Directory" id="Directory"><Directory></a> <a name="directory" id="directory">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Enclose a group of directives that apply only to the
 | 
						||
named file-system directory, sub-directories, and their contents.</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code><Directory <var>directory-path</var>>
 | 
						||
... </Directory></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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p><code class="directive"><Directory></code> and
 | 
						||
    <code></Directory></code> are used to enclose a group of
 | 
						||
    directives that will apply only to the named directory,
 | 
						||
    sub-directories of that directory, and the files within the respective
 | 
						||
    directories.  Any directive that is allowed
 | 
						||
    in a directory context may be used. <var>Directory-path</var> is
 | 
						||
    either the full path to a directory, or a wild-card string using
 | 
						||
    Unix shell-style matching. In a wild-card string, <code>?</code> matches
 | 
						||
    any single character, and <code>*</code> matches any sequences of
 | 
						||
    characters. You may also use <code>[]</code> character ranges. None
 | 
						||
    of the wildcards match a `/' character, so <code><Directory
 | 
						||
    /*/public_html></code> will not match
 | 
						||
    <code>/home/user/public_html</code>, but <code><Directory
 | 
						||
    /home/*/public_html></code> will match. Example:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<Directory "/usr/local/httpd/htdocs">
 | 
						||
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
 | 
						||
</Directory>
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="note">
 | 
						||
      <p>Be careful with the <var>directory-path</var> arguments:
 | 
						||
      They have to literally match the filesystem path which Apache httpd uses
 | 
						||
      to access the files. Directives applied to a particular
 | 
						||
      <code><Directory></code> will not apply to files accessed from
 | 
						||
      that same directory via a different path, such as via different symbolic
 | 
						||
      links.</p>
 | 
						||
    </div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p><a class="glossarylink" href="../glossary.html#regex" title="see glossary">Regular
 | 
						||
    expressions</a> can also be used, with the addition of the
 | 
						||
    <code>~</code> character. For example:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<Directory ~ "^/www/[0-9]{3}">
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
</Directory>
 | 
						||
</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>would match directories in <code>/www/</code> that consisted of
 | 
						||
    three numbers.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>If multiple (non-regular expression) <code class="directive"><Directory></code> sections
 | 
						||
    match the directory (or one of its parents) containing a document,
 | 
						||
    then the directives are applied in the order of shortest match
 | 
						||
    first, interspersed with the directives from the <a href="#accessfilename">.htaccess</a> files. For example,
 | 
						||
    with</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<Directory />
 | 
						||
  AllowOverride None
 | 
						||
</Directory>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<Directory "/home">
 | 
						||
  AllowOverride FileInfo
 | 
						||
</Directory>
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>for access to the document <code>/home/web/dir/doc.html</code>
 | 
						||
    the steps are:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <ul>
 | 
						||
      <li>Apply directive <code>AllowOverride None</code>
 | 
						||
      (disabling <code>.htaccess</code> files).</li>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <li>Apply directive <code>AllowOverride FileInfo</code> (for
 | 
						||
      directory <code>/home</code>).</li>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <li>Apply any <code>FileInfo</code> directives in
 | 
						||
      <code>/home/.htaccess</code>, <code>/home/web/.htaccess</code> and
 | 
						||
      <code>/home/web/dir/.htaccess</code> in that order.</li>
 | 
						||
    </ul>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Regular expressions are not considered until after all of the
 | 
						||
    normal sections have been applied. Then all of the regular
 | 
						||
    expressions are tested in the order they appeared in the
 | 
						||
    configuration file. For example, with</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<Directory ~ "abc$">
 | 
						||
  # ... directives here ...
 | 
						||
</Directory>
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>the regular expression section won't be considered until after
 | 
						||
    all normal <code class="directive"><Directory></code>s and
 | 
						||
    <code>.htaccess</code> files have been applied. Then the regular
 | 
						||
    expression will match on <code>/home/abc/public_html/abc</code> and
 | 
						||
    the corresponding <code class="directive"><Directory></code> will
 | 
						||
    be applied.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
   <p><strong>Note that the default access for
 | 
						||
    <code><Directory /></code> is to permit all access.
 | 
						||
    This means that Apache httpd will serve any file mapped from an URL. It is
 | 
						||
    recommended that you change this with a block such
 | 
						||
    as</strong></p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<Directory />
 | 
						||
  Require all denied
 | 
						||
</Directory>
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p><strong>and then override this for directories you
 | 
						||
    <em>want</em> accessible. See the <a href="../misc/security_tips.html">Security Tips</a> page for more
 | 
						||
    details.</strong></p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The directory sections occur in the <code>httpd.conf</code> file.
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><Directory></code> directives
 | 
						||
    cannot nest, and cannot appear in a <code class="directive"><a href="#limit"><Limit></a></code> or <code class="directive"><a href="#limitexcept"><LimitExcept></a></code> section.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><a href="../sections.html">How <Directory>,
 | 
						||
    <Location> and <Files> sections work</a> for an
 | 
						||
    explanation of how these different sections are combined when a
 | 
						||
    request is received</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="DirectoryMatch" id="DirectoryMatch"><DirectoryMatch></a> <a name="directorymatch" id="directorymatch">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Enclose directives that apply to
 | 
						||
the contents of file-system directories matching a regular expression.</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code><DirectoryMatch <var>regex</var>>
 | 
						||
... </DirectoryMatch></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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p><code class="directive"><DirectoryMatch></code> and
 | 
						||
    <code></DirectoryMatch></code> are used to enclose a group
 | 
						||
    of directives which will apply only to the named directory (and the files within),
 | 
						||
    the same as <code class="directive"><a href="#directory"><Directory></a></code>.
 | 
						||
    However, it takes as an argument a
 | 
						||
    <a class="glossarylink" href="../glossary.html#regex" title="see glossary">regular expression</a>.  For example:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<DirectoryMatch "^/www/(.+/)?[0-9]{3}">
 | 
						||
    # ...
 | 
						||
</DirectoryMatch>
 | 
						||
</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>would match directories in <code>/www/</code> that consisted of three
 | 
						||
    numbers.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
   <div class="note"><h3>Compatability</h3>
 | 
						||
      Prior to 2.3.9, this directive implicitly applied to sub-directories
 | 
						||
      (like <code class="directive"><a href="#directory"><Directory></a></code>) and
 | 
						||
      could not match the end of line symbol ($).  In 2.3.9 and later,
 | 
						||
      only directories that match the expression are affected by the enclosed
 | 
						||
      directives.
 | 
						||
    </div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="note"><h3>Trailing Slash</h3>
 | 
						||
      This directive applies to requests for directories that may or may
 | 
						||
      not end in a trailing slash, so expressions that are anchored to the
 | 
						||
      end of line ($) must be written with care.
 | 
						||
    </div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#directory"><Directory></a></code> for
 | 
						||
a description of how regular expressions are mixed in with normal
 | 
						||
<code class="directive"><Directory></code>s</li>
 | 
						||
<li><a href="../sections.html">How <Directory>, <Location> and
 | 
						||
<Files> sections work</a> for an explanation of how these different
 | 
						||
sections are combined when a request is received</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="DocumentRoot" id="DocumentRoot">DocumentRoot</a> <a name="documentroot" id="documentroot">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Directory that forms the main document tree visible
 | 
						||
from the web</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>DocumentRoot <var>directory-path</var></code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>DocumentRoot /usr/local/apache/htdocs</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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>This directive sets the directory from which <code class="program"><a href="../programs/httpd.html">httpd</a></code>
 | 
						||
    will serve files. Unless matched by a directive like <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_alias.html#alias">Alias</a></code>, the server appends the
 | 
						||
    path from the requested URL to the document root to make the
 | 
						||
    path to the document. Example:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">DocumentRoot "/usr/web"</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>then an access to
 | 
						||
    <code>http://my.example.com/index.html</code> refers to
 | 
						||
    <code>/usr/web/index.html</code>. If the <var>directory-path</var> is
 | 
						||
    not absolute then it is assumed to be relative to the <code class="directive"><a href="#serverroot">ServerRoot</a></code>.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive">DocumentRoot</code> should be specified without
 | 
						||
    a trailing slash.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><a href="../urlmapping.html#documentroot">Mapping URLs to Filesystem
 | 
						||
Locations</a></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="Else" id="Else"><Else></a> <a name="else" id="else">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Contains directives that apply only if the condition of a
 | 
						||
previous <code class="directive"><a href="#if"><If></a></code> or
 | 
						||
<code class="directive"><a href="#elseif"><ElseIf></a></code> section is not
 | 
						||
satisfied by a request at runtime</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code><Else> ... </Else></code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>All</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive"><Else></code> applies the enclosed
 | 
						||
    directives if and only if the most recent
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><If></code> or
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><ElseIf></code> section
 | 
						||
    in the same scope has not been applied.
 | 
						||
    For example: In </p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<If "-z req('Host')">
 | 
						||
  # ...
 | 
						||
</If>
 | 
						||
<Else>
 | 
						||
  # ...
 | 
						||
</Else>
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p> The <code class="directive"><If></code> would match HTTP/1.0
 | 
						||
        requests without a <var>Host:</var> header and the
 | 
						||
        <code class="directive"><Else></code> would match requests
 | 
						||
        with a <var>Host:</var> header.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#if"><If></a></code></li>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#elseif"><ElseIf></a></code></li>
 | 
						||
<li><a href="../sections.html">How <Directory>, <Location>,
 | 
						||
    <Files> sections work</a> for an explanation of how these
 | 
						||
    different sections are combined when a request is received.
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><If></code>,
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><ElseIf></code>, and
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><Else></code> are applied last.</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="ElseIf" id="ElseIf"><ElseIf></a> <a name="elseif" id="elseif">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Contains directives that apply only if a condition is satisfied
 | 
						||
by a request at runtime while the condition of a previous
 | 
						||
<code class="directive"><a href="#if"><If></a></code> or
 | 
						||
<code class="directive"><ElseIf></code> section is not
 | 
						||
satisfied</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code><ElseIf <var>expression</var>> ... </ElseIf></code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>All</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive"><ElseIf></code> applies the enclosed
 | 
						||
    directives if and only if both the given condition evaluates to true and
 | 
						||
    the most recent <code class="directive"><If></code> or
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><ElseIf></code> section in the same scope has
 | 
						||
    not been applied.  For example: In </p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<If "-R '10.1.0.0/16'">
 | 
						||
  #...
 | 
						||
</If>
 | 
						||
<ElseIf "-R '10.0.0.0/8'">
 | 
						||
  #...
 | 
						||
</ElseIf>
 | 
						||
<Else>
 | 
						||
  #...
 | 
						||
</Else>
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive"><ElseIf></code> would match if
 | 
						||
    the remote address of a request belongs to the subnet 10.0.0.0/8 but
 | 
						||
    not to the subnet 10.1.0.0/16.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><a href="../expr.html">Expressions in Apache HTTP Server</a>,
 | 
						||
for a complete reference and more examples.</li>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#if"><If></a></code></li>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#else"><Else></a></code></li>
 | 
						||
<li><a href="../sections.html">How <Directory>, <Location>,
 | 
						||
    <Files> sections work</a> for an explanation of how these
 | 
						||
    different sections are combined when a request is received.
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><If></code>,
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><ElseIf></code>, and
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><Else></code> are applied last.</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="EnableMMAP" id="EnableMMAP">EnableMMAP</a> <a name="enablemmap" id="enablemmap">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Use memory-mapping to read files during delivery</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>EnableMMAP On|Off</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>EnableMMAP On</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>FileInfo</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>This directive controls whether the <code class="program"><a href="../programs/httpd.html">httpd</a></code> may use
 | 
						||
    memory-mapping if it needs to read the contents of a file during
 | 
						||
    delivery.  By default, when the handling of a request requires
 | 
						||
    access to the data within a file -- for example, when delivering a
 | 
						||
    server-parsed file using <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_include.html">mod_include</a></code> -- Apache httpd
 | 
						||
    memory-maps the file if the OS supports it.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>This memory-mapping sometimes yields a performance improvement.
 | 
						||
    But in some environments, it is better to disable the memory-mapping
 | 
						||
    to prevent operational problems:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <ul>
 | 
						||
    <li>On some multiprocessor systems, memory-mapping can reduce the
 | 
						||
    performance of the <code class="program"><a href="../programs/httpd.html">httpd</a></code>.</li>
 | 
						||
    <li>Deleting or truncating a file while <code class="program"><a href="../programs/httpd.html">httpd</a></code>
 | 
						||
      has it memory-mapped can cause <code class="program"><a href="../programs/httpd.html">httpd</a></code> to
 | 
						||
      crash with a segmentation fault.
 | 
						||
    </li>
 | 
						||
    </ul>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>For server configurations that are vulnerable to these problems,
 | 
						||
    you should disable memory-mapping of delivered files by specifying:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">EnableMMAP Off</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>For NFS mounted files, this feature may be disabled explicitly for
 | 
						||
    the offending files by specifying:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<Directory "/path-to-nfs-files">
 | 
						||
  EnableMMAP Off
 | 
						||
</Directory>
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
 | 
						||
<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="EnableSendfile" id="EnableSendfile">EnableSendfile</a> <a name="enablesendfile" id="enablesendfile">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Use the kernel sendfile support to deliver files to the client</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>EnableSendfile On|Off</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>EnableSendfile Off</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>FileInfo</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in version 2.0.44 and later. Default changed to Off in
 | 
						||
version 2.3.9.</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>This directive controls whether <code class="program"><a href="../programs/httpd.html">httpd</a></code> may use the
 | 
						||
    sendfile support from the kernel to transmit file contents to the client.
 | 
						||
    By default, when the handling of a request requires no access
 | 
						||
    to the data within a file -- for example, when delivering a
 | 
						||
    static file -- Apache httpd uses sendfile to deliver the file contents
 | 
						||
    without ever reading the file if the OS supports it.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>This sendfile mechanism avoids separate read and send operations,
 | 
						||
    and buffer allocations. But on some platforms or within some
 | 
						||
    filesystems, it is better to disable this feature to avoid
 | 
						||
    operational problems:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <ul>
 | 
						||
    <li>Some platforms may have broken sendfile support that the build
 | 
						||
    system did not detect, especially if the binaries were built on
 | 
						||
    another box and moved to such a machine with broken sendfile
 | 
						||
    support.</li>
 | 
						||
    <li>On Linux the use of sendfile triggers TCP-checksum
 | 
						||
    offloading bugs on certain networking cards when using IPv6.</li>
 | 
						||
    <li>On Linux on Itanium, <code>sendfile</code> may be unable to handle
 | 
						||
    files over 2GB in size.</li>
 | 
						||
    <li>With a network-mounted <code class="directive"><a href="#documentroot">DocumentRoot</a></code> (e.g., NFS, SMB, CIFS, FUSE),
 | 
						||
    the kernel may be unable to serve the network file through
 | 
						||
    its own cache.</li>
 | 
						||
    </ul>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>For server configurations that are not vulnerable to these problems,
 | 
						||
    you may enable this feature by specifying:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">EnableSendfile On</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>For network mounted files, this feature may be disabled explicitly
 | 
						||
    for the offending files by specifying:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<Directory "/path-to-nfs-files">
 | 
						||
  EnableSendfile Off
 | 
						||
</Directory>
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Please note that the per-directory and .htaccess configuration
 | 
						||
       of <code class="directive">EnableSendfile</code> is not supported by
 | 
						||
       <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_cache_disk.html">mod_cache_disk</a></code>.
 | 
						||
       Only global definition of <code class="directive">EnableSendfile</code>
 | 
						||
       is taken into account by the module.
 | 
						||
    </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="Error" id="Error">Error</a> <a name="error" id="error">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Abort configuration parsing with a custom error message</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>Error <var>message</var></code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>2.3.9 and later</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>If an error can be detected within the configuration, this
 | 
						||
    directive can be used to generate a custom error message, and halt
 | 
						||
    configuration parsing.  The typical use is for reporting required
 | 
						||
    modules which are missing from the configuration.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
# Example
 | 
						||
# ensure that mod_include is loaded
 | 
						||
<IfModule !include_module>
 | 
						||
  Error "mod_include is required by mod_foo.  Load it with LoadModule."
 | 
						||
</IfModule>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
# ensure that exactly one of SSL,NOSSL is defined
 | 
						||
<IfDefine SSL>
 | 
						||
<IfDefine NOSSL>
 | 
						||
  Error "Both SSL and NOSSL are defined.  Define only one of them."
 | 
						||
</IfDefine>
 | 
						||
</IfDefine>
 | 
						||
<IfDefine !SSL>
 | 
						||
<IfDefine !NOSSL>
 | 
						||
  Error "Either SSL or NOSSL must be defined."
 | 
						||
</IfDefine>
 | 
						||
</IfDefine>
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
 | 
						||
<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="ErrorDocument" id="ErrorDocument">ErrorDocument</a> <a name="errordocument" id="errordocument">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>What the server will return to the client
 | 
						||
in case of an error</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>ErrorDocument <var>error-code</var> <var>document</var></code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>FileInfo</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>In the event of a problem or error, Apache httpd can be configured
 | 
						||
    to do one of four things,</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <ol>
 | 
						||
      <li>output a simple hardcoded error message</li>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <li>output a customized message</li>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <li>redirect to a local <var>URL-path</var> to handle the
 | 
						||
      problem/error</li>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <li>redirect to an external <var>URL</var> to handle the
 | 
						||
      problem/error</li>
 | 
						||
    </ol>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The first option is the default, while options 2-4 are
 | 
						||
    configured using the <code class="directive">ErrorDocument</code>
 | 
						||
    directive, which is followed by the HTTP response code and a URL
 | 
						||
    or a message. Apache httpd will sometimes offer additional information
 | 
						||
    regarding the problem/error.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>URLs can begin with a slash (/) for local web-paths (relative
 | 
						||
    to the <code class="directive"><a href="#documentroot">DocumentRoot</a></code>), or be a
 | 
						||
    full URL which the client can resolve. Alternatively, a message
 | 
						||
    can be provided to be displayed by the browser. Examples:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
ErrorDocument 500 http://foo.example.com/cgi-bin/tester
 | 
						||
ErrorDocument 404 /cgi-bin/bad_urls.pl
 | 
						||
ErrorDocument 401 /subscription_info.html
 | 
						||
ErrorDocument 403 "Sorry can't allow you access today"
 | 
						||
ErrorDocument 403 Forbidden!
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Additionally, the special value <code>default</code> can be used
 | 
						||
    to specify Apache httpd's simple hardcoded message.  While not required
 | 
						||
    under normal circumstances, <code>default</code> will restore
 | 
						||
    Apache httpd's simple hardcoded message for configurations that would
 | 
						||
    otherwise inherit an existing <code class="directive">ErrorDocument</code>.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
ErrorDocument 404 /cgi-bin/bad_urls.pl
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<Directory /web/docs>
 | 
						||
  ErrorDocument 404 default
 | 
						||
</Directory>
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Note that when you specify an <code class="directive">ErrorDocument</code>
 | 
						||
    that points to a remote URL (ie. anything with a method such as
 | 
						||
    <code>http</code> in front of it), Apache HTTP Server will send a redirect to the
 | 
						||
    client to tell it where to find the document, even if the
 | 
						||
    document ends up being on the same server. This has several
 | 
						||
    implications, the most important being that the client will not
 | 
						||
    receive the original error status code, but instead will
 | 
						||
    receive a redirect status code. This in turn can confuse web
 | 
						||
    robots and other clients which try to determine if a URL is
 | 
						||
    valid using the status code. In addition, if you use a remote
 | 
						||
    URL in an <code>ErrorDocument 401</code>, the client will not
 | 
						||
    know to prompt the user for a password since it will not
 | 
						||
    receive the 401 status code. Therefore, <strong>if you use an
 | 
						||
    <code>ErrorDocument 401</code> directive then it must refer to a local
 | 
						||
    document.</strong></p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE) will by default ignore
 | 
						||
    server-generated error messages when they are "too small" and substitute
 | 
						||
    its own "friendly" error messages. The size threshold varies depending on
 | 
						||
    the type of error, but in general, if you make your error document
 | 
						||
    greater than 512 bytes, then MSIE will show the server-generated
 | 
						||
    error rather than masking it.  More information is available in
 | 
						||
    Microsoft Knowledge Base article <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q294807">Q294807</a>.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Although most error messages can be overridden, there are certain
 | 
						||
    circumstances where the internal messages are used regardless of the
 | 
						||
    setting of <code class="directive"><a href="#errordocument">ErrorDocument</a></code>.  In
 | 
						||
    particular, if a malformed request is detected, normal request processing
 | 
						||
    will be immediately halted and the internal error message returned.
 | 
						||
    This is necessary to guard against security problems caused by
 | 
						||
    bad requests.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>If you are using mod_proxy, you may wish to enable
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_proxy.html#proxyerroroverride">ProxyErrorOverride</a></code> so that you can provide
 | 
						||
    custom error messages on behalf of your Origin servers. If you don't enable ProxyErrorOverride,
 | 
						||
    Apache httpd will not generate custom error documents for proxied content.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><a href="../custom-error.html">documentation of
 | 
						||
    customizable responses</a></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="ErrorLog" id="ErrorLog">ErrorLog</a> <a name="errorlog" id="errorlog">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Location where the server will log errors</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code> ErrorLog <var>file-path</var>|syslog[:<var>facility</var>]</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>ErrorLog logs/error_log (Unix) ErrorLog logs/error.log (Windows and OS/2)</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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive">ErrorLog</code> directive sets the name of
 | 
						||
    the file to which the server will log any errors it encounters. If
 | 
						||
    the <var>file-path</var> is not absolute then it is assumed to be
 | 
						||
    relative to the <code class="directive"><a href="#serverroot">ServerRoot</a></code>.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd/error_log"</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>If the <var>file-path</var>
 | 
						||
    begins with a pipe character "<code>|</code>" then it is assumed to be a
 | 
						||
    command to spawn to handle the error log.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">ErrorLog "|/usr/local/bin/httpd_errors"</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>See the notes on <a href="../logs.html#piped">piped logs</a> for
 | 
						||
    more information.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Using <code>syslog</code> instead of a filename enables logging
 | 
						||
    via syslogd(8) if the system supports it. The default is to use
 | 
						||
    syslog facility <code>local7</code>, but you can override this by
 | 
						||
    using the <code>syslog:<var>facility</var></code> syntax where
 | 
						||
    <var>facility</var> can be one of the names usually documented in
 | 
						||
    syslog(1).  The facility is effectively global, and if it is changed
 | 
						||
    in individual virtual hosts, the final facility specified affects the
 | 
						||
    entire server.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">ErrorLog syslog:user</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>SECURITY: See the <a href="../misc/security_tips.html#serverroot">security tips</a>
 | 
						||
    document for details on why your security could be compromised
 | 
						||
    if the directory where log files are stored is writable by
 | 
						||
    anyone other than the user that starts the server.</p>
 | 
						||
    <div class="warning"><h3>Note</h3>
 | 
						||
      <p>When entering a file path on non-Unix platforms, care should be taken
 | 
						||
      to make sure that only forward slashes are used even though the platform
 | 
						||
      may allow the use of back slashes. In general it is a good idea to always
 | 
						||
      use forward slashes throughout the configuration files.</p>
 | 
						||
    </div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#loglevel">LogLevel</a></code></li>
 | 
						||
<li><a href="../logs.html">Apache HTTP Server Log Files</a></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="ErrorLogFormat" id="ErrorLogFormat">ErrorLogFormat</a> <a name="errorlogformat" id="errorlogformat">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Format specification for error log entries</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code> ErrorLogFormat [connection|request] <var>format</var></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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in Apache httpd 2.3.9 and later</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p><code class="directive">ErrorLogFormat</code> allows to specify what
 | 
						||
    supplementary information is logged in the error log in addition to the
 | 
						||
    actual log message.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
#Simple example
 | 
						||
ErrorLogFormat "[%t] [%l] [pid %P] %F: %E: [client %a] %M"
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Specifying <code>connection</code> or <code>request</code> as first
 | 
						||
    parameter allows to specify additional formats, causing additional
 | 
						||
    information to be logged when the first message is logged for a specific
 | 
						||
    connection or request, respectively. This additional information is only
 | 
						||
    logged once per connection/request. If a connection or request is processed
 | 
						||
    without causing any log message, the additional information is not logged
 | 
						||
    either.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>It can happen that some format string items do not produce output.  For
 | 
						||
    example, the Referer header is only present if the log message is
 | 
						||
    associated to a request and the log message happens at a time when the
 | 
						||
    Referer header has already been read from the client.  If no output is
 | 
						||
    produced, the default behavior is to delete everything from the preceding
 | 
						||
    space character to the next space character.  This means the log line is
 | 
						||
    implicitly divided into fields on non-whitespace to whitespace transitions.
 | 
						||
    If a format string item does not produce output, the whole field is
 | 
						||
    omitted.  For example, if the remote address <code>%a</code> in the log
 | 
						||
    format <code>[%t] [%l] [%a] %M </code> is not available, the surrounding
 | 
						||
    brackets are not logged either.  Space characters can be escaped with a
 | 
						||
    backslash to prevent them from delimiting a field.  The combination '% '
 | 
						||
    (percent space) is a zero-width field delimiter that does not produce any
 | 
						||
    output.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The above behavior can be changed by adding modifiers to the format
 | 
						||
    string item. A <code>-</code> (minus) modifier causes a minus to be logged if the
 | 
						||
    respective item does not produce any output. In once-per-connection/request
 | 
						||
    formats, it is also possible to use the <code>+</code> (plus) modifier. If an
 | 
						||
    item with the plus modifier does not produce any output, the whole line is
 | 
						||
    omitted.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>A number as modifier can be used to assign a log severity level to a
 | 
						||
    format item. The item will only be logged if the severity of the log
 | 
						||
    message is not higher than the specified log severity level. The number can
 | 
						||
    range from 1 (alert) over 4 (warn) and 7 (debug) to 15 (trace8).</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>For example, here's what would happen if you added modifiers to
 | 
						||
    the <code>%{Referer}i</code> token, which logs the
 | 
						||
    <code>Referer</code> request header.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <table class="bordered"><tr class="header"><th>Modified Token</th><th>Meaning</th></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr>
 | 
						||
    <td><code>%-{Referer}i</code></td>
 | 
						||
    <td>Logs a <code>-</code> if <code>Referer</code> is not set.</td>
 | 
						||
    </tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="odd">
 | 
						||
    <td><code>%+{Referer}i</code></td>
 | 
						||
    <td>Omits the entire line if <code>Referer</code> is not set.</td>
 | 
						||
    </tr>
 | 
						||
<tr>
 | 
						||
    <td><code>%4{Referer}i</code></td>
 | 
						||
    <td>Logs the <code>Referer</code> only if the log message severity
 | 
						||
    is higher than 4.</td>
 | 
						||
    </tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Some format string items accept additional parameters in braces.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <table class="bordered"><tr class="header"><th>Format String</th> <th>Description</th></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><td><code>%%</code></td>
 | 
						||
        <td>The percent sign</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="odd"><td><code>%a</code></td>
 | 
						||
        <td>Client IP address and port of the request</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><td><code>%{c}a</code></td>
 | 
						||
        <td>Underlying peer IP address and port of the connection (see the
 | 
						||
            <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_remoteip.html">mod_remoteip</a></code> module)</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="odd"><td><code>%A</code></td>
 | 
						||
        <td>Local IP-address and port</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><td><code>%{<em>name</em>}e</code></td>
 | 
						||
        <td>Request environment variable <em>name</em></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="odd"><td><code>%E</code></td>
 | 
						||
        <td>APR/OS error status code and string</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><td><code>%F</code></td>
 | 
						||
        <td>Source file name and line number of the log call</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="odd"><td><code>%{<em>name</em>}i</code></td>
 | 
						||
        <td>Request header <em>name</em></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><td><code>%k</code></td>
 | 
						||
        <td>Number of keep-alive requests on this connection</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="odd"><td><code>%l</code></td>
 | 
						||
        <td>Loglevel of the message</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><td><code>%L</code></td>
 | 
						||
        <td>Log ID of the request</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="odd"><td><code>%{c}L</code></td>
 | 
						||
        <td>Log ID of the connection</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><td><code>%{C}L</code></td>
 | 
						||
        <td>Log ID of the connection if used in connection scope, empty otherwise</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="odd"><td><code>%m</code></td>
 | 
						||
        <td>Name of the module logging the message</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><td><code>%M</code></td>
 | 
						||
        <td>The actual log message</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="odd"><td><code>%{<em>name</em>}n</code></td>
 | 
						||
        <td>Request note <em>name</em></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><td><code>%P</code></td>
 | 
						||
        <td>Process ID of current process</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="odd"><td><code>%T</code></td>
 | 
						||
        <td>Thread ID of current thread</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><td><code>%{g}T</code></td>
 | 
						||
        <td>System unique thread ID of current thread (the same ID as
 | 
						||
            displayed by e.g. <code>top</code>; currently Linux only)</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="odd"><td><code>%t</code></td>
 | 
						||
        <td>The current time</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><td><code>%{u}t</code></td>
 | 
						||
        <td>The current time including micro-seconds</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="odd"><td><code>%{cu}t</code></td>
 | 
						||
        <td>The current time in compact ISO 8601 format, including
 | 
						||
            micro-seconds</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><td><code>%v</code></td>
 | 
						||
        <td>The canonical <code class="directive"><a href="#servername">ServerName</a></code>
 | 
						||
            of the current server.</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="odd"><td><code>%V</code></td>
 | 
						||
        <td>The server name of the server serving the request according to the
 | 
						||
            <code class="directive"><a href="#usecanonicalname">UseCanonicalName</a></code>
 | 
						||
            setting.</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><td><code>\ </code> (backslash space)</td>
 | 
						||
        <td>Non-field delimiting space</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="odd"><td><code>% </code> (percent space)</td>
 | 
						||
        <td>Field delimiter (no output)</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The log ID format <code>%L</code> produces a unique id for a connection
 | 
						||
    or request. This can be used to correlate which log lines belong to the
 | 
						||
    same connection or request, which request happens on which connection.
 | 
						||
    A <code>%L</code> format string is also available in
 | 
						||
    <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_log_config.html">mod_log_config</a></code>, to allow to correlate access log entries
 | 
						||
    with error log lines. If <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_unique_id.html">mod_unique_id</a></code> is loaded, its
 | 
						||
    unique id will be used as log ID for requests.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
#Example (default format)
 | 
						||
ErrorLogFormat "[%{u}t] [%-m:%l] [pid %P:tid %T] %7F: %E: [client\ %a] %M% ,\ referer\ %{Referer}i"
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>This would result in error messages such as:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
	<div class="example"><p><code>
 | 
						||
    [Thu May 12 08:28:57.652118 2011] [core:error] [pid 8777:tid 4326490112] [client ::1:58619] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/favicon.ico
 | 
						||
    </code></p></div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Notice that, as discussed above, some fields are omitted
 | 
						||
    entirely because they are not defined.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
#Example (similar to the 2.2.x format)
 | 
						||
ErrorLogFormat "[%t] [%l] %7F: %E: [client\ %a] %M% ,\ referer\ %{Referer}i"
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
#Advanced example with request/connection log IDs
 | 
						||
ErrorLogFormat "[%{uc}t] [%-m:%-l] [R:%L] [C:%{C}L] %7F: %E: %M"
 | 
						||
ErrorLogFormat request "[%{uc}t] [R:%L] Request %k on C:%{c}L pid:%P tid:%T"
 | 
						||
ErrorLogFormat request "[%{uc}t] [R:%L] UA:'%+{User-Agent}i'"
 | 
						||
ErrorLogFormat request "[%{uc}t] [R:%L] Referer:'%+{Referer}i'"
 | 
						||
ErrorLogFormat connection "[%{uc}t] [C:%{c}L] local\ %a remote\ %A"
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#errorlog">ErrorLog</a></code></li>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#loglevel">LogLevel</a></code></li>
 | 
						||
<li><a href="../logs.html">Apache HTTP Server Log Files</a></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="ExtendedStatus" id="ExtendedStatus">ExtendedStatus</a> <a name="extendedstatus" id="extendedstatus">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Keep track of extended status information for each
 | 
						||
request</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>ExtendedStatus On|Off</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>ExtendedStatus Off[*]</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>This option tracks additional data per worker about the
 | 
						||
    currently executing request, and a utilization summary; you
 | 
						||
    can see these variables during runtime by configuring
 | 
						||
    <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_status.html">mod_status</a></code>.  Note that other modules may
 | 
						||
    rely on this scoreboard.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>This setting applies to the entire server, and cannot be
 | 
						||
    enabled or disabled on a virtualhost-by-virtualhost basis.
 | 
						||
    The collection of extended status information can slow down
 | 
						||
    the server.  Also note that this setting cannot be changed
 | 
						||
    during a graceful restart.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="note">
 | 
						||
    <p>Note that loading <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_status.html">mod_status</a></code> will change
 | 
						||
    the default behavior to ExtendedStatus On, while other
 | 
						||
    third party modules may do the same.  Such modules rely on
 | 
						||
    collecting detailed information about the state of all workers.
 | 
						||
    The default is changed by <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_status.html">mod_status</a></code> beginning
 | 
						||
    with version 2.3.6; the previous default was always Off.</p>
 | 
						||
    </div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
 | 
						||
<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="FileETag" id="FileETag">FileETag</a> <a name="fileetag" id="fileetag">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>File attributes used to create the ETag
 | 
						||
HTTP response header for static files</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>FileETag <var>component</var> ...</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>FileETag MTime Size</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>FileInfo</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>The default used to be "INode MTime Size" in 2.3.14 and
 | 
						||
earlier.</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>
 | 
						||
    The <code class="directive">FileETag</code> directive configures the file
 | 
						||
    attributes that are used to create the <code>ETag</code> (entity
 | 
						||
    tag) response header field when the document is based on a static file.
 | 
						||
    (The <code>ETag</code> value is used in cache management to save
 | 
						||
    network bandwidth.) The
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive">FileETag</code> directive allows you to choose
 | 
						||
    which of these -- if any -- should be used. The recognized keywords are:
 | 
						||
    </p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <dl>
 | 
						||
     <dt><strong>INode</strong></dt>
 | 
						||
     <dd>The file's i-node number will be included in the calculation</dd>
 | 
						||
     <dt><strong>MTime</strong></dt>
 | 
						||
     <dd>The date and time the file was last modified will be included</dd>
 | 
						||
     <dt><strong>Size</strong></dt>
 | 
						||
     <dd>The number of bytes in the file will be included</dd>
 | 
						||
     <dt><strong>All</strong></dt>
 | 
						||
     <dd>All available fields will be used. This is equivalent to:
 | 
						||
         <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">FileETag INode MTime Size</pre>
 | 
						||
</dd>
 | 
						||
     <dt><strong>None</strong></dt>
 | 
						||
     <dd>If a document is file-based, no <code>ETag</code> field will be
 | 
						||
       included in the response</dd>
 | 
						||
    </dl>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code>INode</code>, <code>MTime</code>, and <code>Size</code>
 | 
						||
    keywords may be prefixed with either <code>+</code> or <code>-</code>,
 | 
						||
    which allow changes to be made to the default setting inherited
 | 
						||
    from a broader scope. Any keyword appearing without such a prefix
 | 
						||
    immediately and completely cancels the inherited setting.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>If a directory's configuration includes
 | 
						||
    <code>FileETag INode MTime Size</code>, and a
 | 
						||
    subdirectory's includes <code>FileETag -INode</code>,
 | 
						||
    the setting for that subdirectory (which will be inherited by
 | 
						||
    any sub-subdirectories that don't override it) will be equivalent to
 | 
						||
    <code>FileETag MTime Size</code>.</p>
 | 
						||
    <div class="warning"><h3>Warning</h3>
 | 
						||
    Do not change the default for directories or locations that have WebDAV
 | 
						||
    enabled and use <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_dav_fs.html">mod_dav_fs</a></code> as a storage provider.
 | 
						||
    <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_dav_fs.html">mod_dav_fs</a></code> uses <code>MTime Size</code>
 | 
						||
    as a fixed format for <code>ETag</code> comparisons on conditional requests.
 | 
						||
    These conditional requests will break if the <code>ETag</code> format is
 | 
						||
    changed via <code class="directive">FileETag</code>.
 | 
						||
    </div>
 | 
						||
    <div class="note"><h3>Server Side Includes</h3>
 | 
						||
    An ETag is not generated for responses parsed by <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_include.html">mod_include</a></code>,
 | 
						||
    since the response entity can change without a change of the INode, MTime, or Size
 | 
						||
    of the static file with embedded SSI directives.
 | 
						||
    </div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
 | 
						||
<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="Files" id="Files"><Files></a> <a name="files" id="files">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Contains directives that apply to matched
 | 
						||
filenames</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code><Files <var>filename</var>> ... </Files></code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>All</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive"><Files></code> directive
 | 
						||
    limits the scope of the enclosed directives by filename. It is comparable
 | 
						||
    to the <code class="directive"><a href="#directory"><Directory></a></code>
 | 
						||
    and <code class="directive"><a href="#location"><Location></a></code>
 | 
						||
    directives. It should be matched with a <code></Files></code>
 | 
						||
    directive. The directives given within this section will be applied to
 | 
						||
    any object with a basename (last component of filename) matching the
 | 
						||
    specified filename. <code class="directive"><Files></code>
 | 
						||
    sections are processed in the order they appear in the
 | 
						||
    configuration file, after the <code class="directive"><a href="#directory"><Directory></a></code> sections and
 | 
						||
    <code>.htaccess</code> files are read, but before <code class="directive"><a href="#location"><Location></a></code> sections. Note
 | 
						||
    that <code class="directive"><Files></code> can be nested
 | 
						||
    inside <code class="directive"><a href="#directory"><Directory></a></code> sections to restrict the
 | 
						||
    portion of the filesystem they apply to.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The <var>filename</var> argument should include a filename, or
 | 
						||
    a wild-card string, where <code>?</code> matches any single character,
 | 
						||
    and <code>*</code> matches any sequences of characters.</p>
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<Files "cat.html">
 | 
						||
    # Insert stuff that applies to cat.html here
 | 
						||
</Files>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<Files "?at.*">
 | 
						||
    # This would apply to cat.html, bat.html, hat.php and so on.
 | 
						||
</Files>
 | 
						||
</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p><a class="glossarylink" href="../glossary.html#regex" title="see glossary">Regular expressions</a>
 | 
						||
    can also be used, with the addition of the
 | 
						||
    <code>~</code> character. For example:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<Files ~ "\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$">
 | 
						||
    #...
 | 
						||
</Files>
 | 
						||
</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>would match most common Internet graphics formats. <code class="directive"><a href="#filesmatch"><FilesMatch></a></code> is preferred,
 | 
						||
    however.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Note that unlike <code class="directive"><a href="#directory"><Directory></a></code> and <code class="directive"><a href="#location"><Location></a></code> sections, <code class="directive"><Files></code> sections can be used inside
 | 
						||
    <code>.htaccess</code> files. This allows users to control access to
 | 
						||
    their own files, at a file-by-file level.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><a href="../sections.html">How <Directory>, <Location>
 | 
						||
    and <Files> sections work</a> for an explanation of how these
 | 
						||
    different sections are combined when a request is received</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="FilesMatch" id="FilesMatch"><FilesMatch></a> <a name="filesmatch" id="filesmatch">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Contains directives that apply to regular-expression matched
 | 
						||
filenames</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code><FilesMatch <var>regex</var>> ... </FilesMatch></code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>All</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive"><FilesMatch></code> directive
 | 
						||
    limits the scope of the enclosed directives by filename, just as the
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><a href="#files"><Files></a></code> directive
 | 
						||
    does. However, it accepts a <a class="glossarylink" href="../glossary.html#regex" title="see glossary">regular
 | 
						||
    expression</a>. For example:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<FilesMatch "\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$">
 | 
						||
    # ...
 | 
						||
</FilesMatch>
 | 
						||
</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>would match most common Internet graphics formats.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><a href="../sections.html">How <Directory>, <Location>
 | 
						||
    and <Files> sections work</a> for an explanation of how these
 | 
						||
    different sections are combined when a request is received</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="ForceType" id="ForceType">ForceType</a> <a name="forcetype" id="forcetype">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Forces all matching files to be served with the specified
 | 
						||
media type in the HTTP Content-Type header field</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>ForceType <var>media-type</var>|None</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>FileInfo</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Moved to the core in Apache httpd 2.0</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>When placed into an <code>.htaccess</code> file or a
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><a href="#directory"><Directory></a></code>, or
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><a href="#location"><Location></a></code> or
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><a href="#files"><Files></a></code>
 | 
						||
    section, this directive forces all matching files to be served
 | 
						||
    with the content type identification given by
 | 
						||
    <var>media-type</var>. For example, if you had a directory full of
 | 
						||
    GIF files, but did not want to label them all with <code>.gif</code>,
 | 
						||
    you might want to use:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">ForceType image/gif</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Note that this directive overrides other indirect media type
 | 
						||
    associations defined in mime.types or via the
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_mime.html#addtype">AddType</a></code>.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>You can also override more general
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive">ForceType</code> settings
 | 
						||
    by using the value of <code>None</code>:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
# force all files to be image/gif:
 | 
						||
<Location /images>
 | 
						||
  ForceType image/gif
 | 
						||
</Location>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
# but normal mime-type associations here:
 | 
						||
<Location /images/mixed>
 | 
						||
  ForceType None
 | 
						||
</Location>
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>This directive primarily overrides the content types generated for
 | 
						||
    static files served out of the filesystem.  For resources other than
 | 
						||
    static files, where the generator of the response typically specifies
 | 
						||
    a Content-Type, this directive has no effect.</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="GprofDir" id="GprofDir">GprofDir</a> <a name="gprofdir" id="gprofdir">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Directory to write gmon.out profiling data to.  </td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>GprofDir <var>/tmp/gprof/</var>|<var>/tmp/gprof/</var>%</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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>When the server has been compiled with gprof profiling support,
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive">GprofDir</code> causes <code>gmon.out</code> files to
 | 
						||
    be written to the specified directory when the process exits.  If the
 | 
						||
    argument ends with a percent symbol ('%'), subdirectories are created
 | 
						||
    for each process id.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>This directive currently only works with the <code class="module"><a href="../mod/prefork.html">prefork</a></code>
 | 
						||
    MPM.</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="HostnameLookups" id="HostnameLookups">HostnameLookups</a> <a name="hostnamelookups" id="hostnamelookups">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Enables DNS lookups on client IP addresses</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>HostnameLookups On|Off|Double</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>HostnameLookups Off</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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>This directive enables DNS lookups so that host names can be
 | 
						||
    logged (and passed to CGIs/SSIs in <code>REMOTE_HOST</code>).
 | 
						||
    The value <code>Double</code> refers to doing double-reverse
 | 
						||
    DNS lookup. That is, after a reverse lookup is performed, a forward
 | 
						||
    lookup is then performed on that result. At least one of the IP
 | 
						||
    addresses in the forward lookup must match the original
 | 
						||
    address. (In "tcpwrappers" terminology this is called
 | 
						||
    <code>PARANOID</code>.)</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Regardless of the setting, when <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_host.html">mod_authz_host</a></code> is
 | 
						||
    used for controlling access by hostname, a double reverse lookup
 | 
						||
    will be performed.  This is necessary for security. Note that the
 | 
						||
    result of this double-reverse isn't generally available unless you
 | 
						||
    set <code>HostnameLookups Double</code>. For example, if only
 | 
						||
    <code>HostnameLookups On</code> and a request is made to an object
 | 
						||
    that is protected by hostname restrictions, regardless of whether
 | 
						||
    the double-reverse fails or not, CGIs will still be passed the
 | 
						||
    single-reverse result in <code>REMOTE_HOST</code>.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The default is <code>Off</code> in order to save the network
 | 
						||
    traffic for those sites that don't truly need the reverse
 | 
						||
    lookups done. It is also better for the end users because they
 | 
						||
    don't have to suffer the extra latency that a lookup entails.
 | 
						||
    Heavily loaded sites should leave this directive
 | 
						||
    <code>Off</code>, since DNS lookups can take considerable
 | 
						||
    amounts of time. The utility <code class="program"><a href="../programs/logresolve.html">logresolve</a></code>, compiled by
 | 
						||
    default to the <code>bin</code> subdirectory of your installation
 | 
						||
    directory, can be used to look up host names from logged IP addresses
 | 
						||
    offline.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Finally, if you have <a href="mod_authz_host.html#reqhost">hostname-based Require
 | 
						||
    directives</a>, a hostname lookup will be performed regardless of
 | 
						||
    the setting of <code>HostnameLookups</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="If" id="If"><If></a> <a name="if" id="if">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Contains directives that apply only if a condition is
 | 
						||
satisfied by a request at runtime</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code><If <var>expression</var>> ... </If></code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>All</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive"><If></code> directive
 | 
						||
    evaluates an expression at runtime, and applies the enclosed
 | 
						||
    directives if and only if the expression evaluates to true.
 | 
						||
    For example:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config"><If "-z req('Host')"></pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>would match HTTP/1.0 requests without a <var>Host:</var> header.
 | 
						||
    Expressions may contain various shell-like operators for string
 | 
						||
    comparison (<code>=</code>, <code>!=</code>, <code><</code>, ...),
 | 
						||
    integer comparison (<code>-eq</code>, <code>-ne</code>, ...),
 | 
						||
    and others (<code>-n</code>, <code>-z</code>, <code>-f</code>, ...).
 | 
						||
    It is also possible to use regular expressions, </p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config"><If "%{QUERY_STRING} =~ /(delete|commit)=.*?elem/"></pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>shell-like pattern matches and many other operations. These operations
 | 
						||
    can be done on request headers (<code>req</code>), environment variables
 | 
						||
    (<code>env</code>), and a large number of other properties. The full
 | 
						||
    documentation is available in <a href="../expr.html">Expressions in
 | 
						||
    Apache HTTP Server</a>.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><a href="../expr.html">Expressions in Apache HTTP Server</a>,
 | 
						||
for a complete reference and more examples.</li>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#elseif"><ElseIf></a></code></li>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#else"><Else></a></code></li>
 | 
						||
<li><a href="../sections.html">How <Directory>, <Location>,
 | 
						||
    <Files> sections work</a> for an explanation of how these
 | 
						||
    different sections are combined when a request is received.
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><If></code>,
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><ElseIf></code>, and
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><Else></code> are applied last.</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="IfDefine" id="IfDefine"><IfDefine></a> <a name="ifdefine" id="ifdefine">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Encloses directives that will be processed only
 | 
						||
if a test is true at startup</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code><IfDefine [!]<var>parameter-name</var>> ...
 | 
						||
    </IfDefine></code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>All</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code><IfDefine <var>test</var>>...</IfDefine>
 | 
						||
    </code> section is used to mark directives that are conditional. The
 | 
						||
    directives within an <code class="directive"><IfDefine></code>
 | 
						||
    section are only processed if the <var>test</var> is true. If <var>
 | 
						||
    test</var> is false, everything between the start and end markers is
 | 
						||
    ignored.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The <var>test</var> in the <code class="directive"><IfDefine></code> section directive can be one of two forms:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <ul>
 | 
						||
      <li><var>parameter-name</var></li>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <li><code>!</code><var>parameter-name</var></li>
 | 
						||
    </ul>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>In the former case, the directives between the start and end
 | 
						||
    markers are only processed if the parameter named
 | 
						||
    <var>parameter-name</var> is defined. The second format reverses
 | 
						||
    the test, and only processes the directives if
 | 
						||
    <var>parameter-name</var> is <strong>not</strong> defined.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The <var>parameter-name</var> argument is a define as given on the
 | 
						||
    <code class="program"><a href="../programs/httpd.html">httpd</a></code> command line via <code>-D<var>parameter</var>
 | 
						||
    </code> at the time the server was started or by the <code class="directive"><a href="#define">Define</a></code> directive.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p><code class="directive"><IfDefine></code> sections are
 | 
						||
    nest-able, which can be used to implement simple
 | 
						||
    multiple-parameter tests. Example:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="example"><p><code>httpd -DReverseProxy -DUseCache -DMemCache ...</code></p></div>
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<IfDefine ReverseProxy>
 | 
						||
  LoadModule proxy_module   modules/mod_proxy.so
 | 
						||
  LoadModule proxy_http_module   modules/mod_proxy_http.so
 | 
						||
  <IfDefine UseCache>
 | 
						||
    LoadModule cache_module   modules/mod_cache.so
 | 
						||
    <IfDefine MemCache>
 | 
						||
      LoadModule mem_cache_module   modules/mod_mem_cache.so
 | 
						||
    </IfDefine>
 | 
						||
    <IfDefine !MemCache>
 | 
						||
      LoadModule cache_disk_module   modules/mod_cache_disk.so
 | 
						||
    </IfDefine>
 | 
						||
  </IfDefine>
 | 
						||
</IfDefine>
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
 | 
						||
<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="IfModule" id="IfModule"><IfModule></a> <a name="ifmodule" id="ifmodule">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Encloses directives that are processed conditional on the
 | 
						||
presence or absence of a specific module</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code><IfModule [!]<var>module-file</var>|<var>module-identifier</var>> ...
 | 
						||
    </IfModule></code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>All</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Module identifiers are available in version 2.1 and
 | 
						||
later.</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code><IfModule <var>test</var>>...</IfModule></code>
 | 
						||
    section is used to mark directives that are conditional on the presence of
 | 
						||
    a specific module. The directives within an <code class="directive"><IfModule></code> section are only processed if the <var>test</var>
 | 
						||
    is true. If <var>test</var> is false, everything between the start and
 | 
						||
    end markers is ignored.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The <var>test</var> in the <code class="directive"><IfModule></code> section directive can be one of two forms:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <ul>
 | 
						||
      <li><var>module</var></li>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <li>!<var>module</var></li>
 | 
						||
    </ul>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>In the former case, the directives between the start and end
 | 
						||
    markers are only processed if the module named <var>module</var>
 | 
						||
    is included in Apache httpd -- either compiled in or
 | 
						||
    dynamically loaded using <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_so.html#loadmodule">LoadModule</a></code>. The second format reverses the test,
 | 
						||
    and only processes the directives if <var>module</var> is
 | 
						||
    <strong>not</strong> included.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The <var>module</var> argument can be either the module identifier or
 | 
						||
    the file name of the module, at the time it was compiled.  For example,
 | 
						||
    <code>rewrite_module</code> is the identifier and
 | 
						||
    <code>mod_rewrite.c</code> is the file name. If a module consists of
 | 
						||
    several source files, use the name of the file containing the string
 | 
						||
    <code>STANDARD20_MODULE_STUFF</code>.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p><code class="directive"><IfModule></code> sections are
 | 
						||
    nest-able, which can be used to implement simple multiple-module
 | 
						||
    tests.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="note">This section should only be used if you need to have one
 | 
						||
    configuration file that works whether or not a specific module
 | 
						||
    is available. In normal operation, directives need not be
 | 
						||
    placed in <code class="directive"><IfModule></code>
 | 
						||
    sections.</div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
 | 
						||
<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="Include" id="Include">Include</a> <a name="include" id="include">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Includes other configuration files from within
 | 
						||
the server configuration files</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>Include <var>file-path</var>|<var>directory-path</var>|<var>wildcard</var></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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Wildcard matching available in 2.0.41 and later, directory
 | 
						||
wildcard matching available in 2.3.6 and later</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>This directive allows inclusion of other configuration files
 | 
						||
    from within the server configuration files.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Shell-style (<code>fnmatch()</code>) wildcard characters can be used
 | 
						||
    in the filename or directory parts of the path to include several files
 | 
						||
    at once, in alphabetical order. In addition, if
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive">Include</code> points to a directory, rather than a file,
 | 
						||
    Apache httpd will read all files in that directory and any subdirectory.
 | 
						||
    However, including entire directories is not recommended, because it is
 | 
						||
    easy to accidentally leave temporary files in a directory that can cause
 | 
						||
    <code class="program"><a href="../programs/httpd.html">httpd</a></code> to fail. Instead, we encourage you to use the
 | 
						||
    wildcard syntax shown below, to include files that match a particular
 | 
						||
    pattern, such as *.conf, for example.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive"><a href="#include">Include</a></code> directive will
 | 
						||
    <strong>fail with an error</strong> if a wildcard expression does not
 | 
						||
    match any file. The <code class="directive"><a href="#includeoptional">IncludeOptional</a></code>
 | 
						||
    directive can be used if non-matching wildcards should be ignored.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The file path specified may be an absolute path, or may be relative
 | 
						||
    to the <code class="directive"><a href="#serverroot">ServerRoot</a></code> directory.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Examples:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
Include /usr/local/apache2/conf/ssl.conf
 | 
						||
Include /usr/local/apache2/conf/vhosts/*.conf
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Or, providing paths relative to your <code class="directive"><a href="#serverroot">ServerRoot</a></code> directory:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
Include conf/ssl.conf
 | 
						||
Include conf/vhosts/*.conf
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Wildcards may be included in the directory or file portion of the
 | 
						||
    path. This example will fail if there is no subdirectory in conf/vhosts
 | 
						||
    that contains at least one *.conf file:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">Include conf/vhosts/*/*.conf</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Alternatively, the following command will just be ignored in case of
 | 
						||
    missing files or directories:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">IncludeOptional conf/vhosts/*/*.conf</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#includeoptional">IncludeOptional</a></code></li>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="program"><a href="../programs/apachectl.html">apachectl</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="IncludeOptional" id="IncludeOptional">IncludeOptional</a> <a name="includeoptional" id="includeoptional">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Includes other configuration files from within
 | 
						||
the server configuration files</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>IncludeOptional <var>file-path</var>|<var>directory-path</var>|<var>wildcard</var></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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in 2.3.6 and later</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>This directive allows inclusion of other configuration files
 | 
						||
    from within the server configuration files. It works identically to the
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><a href="#include">Include</a></code> directive, with the
 | 
						||
    exception that if wildcards do not match any file or directory, the
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><a href="#includeoptional">IncludeOptional</a></code> directive will be
 | 
						||
    silently ignored instead of causing an error.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#include">Include</a></code></li>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="program"><a href="../programs/apachectl.html">apachectl</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="KeepAlive" id="KeepAlive">KeepAlive</a> <a name="keepalive" id="keepalive">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Enables HTTP persistent connections</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>KeepAlive On|Off</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>KeepAlive On</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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>The Keep-Alive extension to HTTP/1.0 and the persistent
 | 
						||
    connection feature of HTTP/1.1 provide long-lived HTTP sessions
 | 
						||
    which allow multiple requests to be sent over the same TCP
 | 
						||
    connection. In some cases this has been shown to result in an
 | 
						||
    almost 50% speedup in latency times for HTML documents with
 | 
						||
    many images. To enable Keep-Alive connections, set
 | 
						||
    <code>KeepAlive On</code>.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>For HTTP/1.0 clients, Keep-Alive connections will only be
 | 
						||
    used if they are specifically requested by a client. In
 | 
						||
    addition, a Keep-Alive connection with an HTTP/1.0 client can
 | 
						||
    only be used when the length of the content is known in
 | 
						||
    advance. This implies that dynamic content such as CGI output,
 | 
						||
    SSI pages, and server-generated directory listings will
 | 
						||
    generally not use Keep-Alive connections to HTTP/1.0 clients.
 | 
						||
    For HTTP/1.1 clients, persistent connections are the default
 | 
						||
    unless otherwise specified. If the client requests it, chunked
 | 
						||
    encoding will be used in order to send content of unknown
 | 
						||
    length over persistent connections.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>When a client uses a Keep-Alive connection it will be counted
 | 
						||
    as a single "request" for the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mpm_common.html#maxconnectionsperchild">MaxConnectionsPerChild</a></code> directive, regardless
 | 
						||
    of how many requests are sent using the connection.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#maxkeepaliverequests">MaxKeepAliveRequests</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="KeepAliveTimeout" id="KeepAliveTimeout">KeepAliveTimeout</a> <a name="keepalivetimeout" id="keepalivetimeout">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Amount of time the server will wait for subsequent
 | 
						||
requests on a persistent connection</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>KeepAliveTimeout <var>num</var>[ms]</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>KeepAliveTimeout 5</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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Specifying a value in milliseconds is available in
 | 
						||
Apache httpd 2.3.2 and later</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>The number of seconds Apache httpd will wait for a subsequent
 | 
						||
    request before closing the connection. By adding a postfix of ms the
 | 
						||
    timeout can be also set in milliseconds. Once a request has been
 | 
						||
    received, the timeout value specified by the
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><a href="#timeout">Timeout</a></code> directive applies.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Setting <code class="directive">KeepAliveTimeout</code> to a high value
 | 
						||
    may cause performance problems in heavily loaded servers. The
 | 
						||
    higher the timeout, the more server processes will be kept
 | 
						||
    occupied waiting on connections with idle clients.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>In a name-based virtual host context, the value of the first
 | 
						||
    defined virtual host best matching the local IP and port will be used.</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="Limit" id="Limit"><Limit></a> <a name="limit" id="limit">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Restrict enclosed access controls to only certain HTTP
 | 
						||
methods</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code><Limit <var>method</var> [<var>method</var>] ... > ...
 | 
						||
    </Limit></code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>AuthConfig, Limit</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>Access controls are normally effective for
 | 
						||
    <strong>all</strong> access methods, and this is the usual
 | 
						||
    desired behavior. <strong>In the general case, access control
 | 
						||
    directives should not be placed within a
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><Limit></code> section.</strong></p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The purpose of the <code class="directive"><Limit></code>
 | 
						||
    directive is to restrict the effect of the access controls to the
 | 
						||
    nominated HTTP methods. For all other methods, the access
 | 
						||
    restrictions that are enclosed in the <code class="directive"><Limit></code> bracket <strong>will have no
 | 
						||
    effect</strong>. The following example applies the access control
 | 
						||
    only to the methods <code>POST</code>, <code>PUT</code>, and
 | 
						||
    <code>DELETE</code>, leaving all other methods unprotected:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<Limit POST PUT DELETE>
 | 
						||
  Require valid-user
 | 
						||
</Limit>
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The method names listed can be one or more of: <code>GET</code>,
 | 
						||
    <code>POST</code>, <code>PUT</code>, <code>DELETE</code>,
 | 
						||
    <code>CONNECT</code>, <code>OPTIONS</code>,
 | 
						||
    <code>PATCH</code>, <code>PROPFIND</code>, <code>PROPPATCH</code>,
 | 
						||
    <code>MKCOL</code>, <code>COPY</code>, <code>MOVE</code>,
 | 
						||
    <code>LOCK</code>, and <code>UNLOCK</code>. <strong>The method name is
 | 
						||
    case-sensitive.</strong> If <code>GET</code> is used it will also
 | 
						||
    restrict <code>HEAD</code> requests. The <code>TRACE</code> method
 | 
						||
    cannot be limited (see <code class="directive"><a href="#traceenable">TraceEnable</a></code>).</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="warning">A <code class="directive"><a href="#limitexcept"><LimitExcept></a></code> section should always be
 | 
						||
    used in preference to a <code class="directive"><Limit></code>
 | 
						||
    section when restricting access, since a <code class="directive"><a href="#limitexcept"><LimitExcept></a></code> section provides protection
 | 
						||
    against arbitrary methods.</div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive"><Limit></code> and
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><a href="#limitexcept"><LimitExcept></a></code>
 | 
						||
    directives may be nested.  In this case, each successive level of
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><Limit></code> or <code class="directive"><a href="#limitexcept"><LimitExcept></a></code> directives must
 | 
						||
    further restrict the set of methods to which access controls apply.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="warning">When using
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><Limit></code> or
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><LimitExcept></code> directives with
 | 
						||
    the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_core.html#require">Require</a></code> directive,
 | 
						||
    note that the first <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_core.html#require">Require</a></code>
 | 
						||
    to succeed authorizes the request, regardless of the presence of other
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_core.html#require">Require</a></code> directives.</div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>For example, given the following configuration, all users will
 | 
						||
    be authorized for <code>POST</code> requests, and the
 | 
						||
    <code>Require group editors</code> directive will be ignored
 | 
						||
    in all cases:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<LimitExcept GET>
 | 
						||
  Require valid-user
 | 
						||
</LimitExcept>
 | 
						||
<Limit POST>
 | 
						||
  Require group editors
 | 
						||
</Limit>
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
 | 
						||
<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="LimitExcept" id="LimitExcept"><LimitExcept></a> <a name="limitexcept" id="limitexcept">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Restrict access controls to all HTTP methods
 | 
						||
except the named ones</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code><LimitExcept <var>method</var> [<var>method</var>] ... > ...
 | 
						||
    </LimitExcept></code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>AuthConfig, Limit</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p><code class="directive"><LimitExcept></code> and
 | 
						||
    <code></LimitExcept></code> are used to enclose
 | 
						||
    a group of access control directives which will then apply to any
 | 
						||
    HTTP access method <strong>not</strong> listed in the arguments;
 | 
						||
    i.e., it is the opposite of a <code class="directive"><a href="#limit"><Limit></a></code> section and can be used to control
 | 
						||
    both standard and nonstandard/unrecognized methods. See the
 | 
						||
    documentation for <code class="directive"><a href="#limit"><Limit></a></code> for more details.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>For example:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<LimitExcept POST GET>
 | 
						||
  Require valid-user
 | 
						||
</LimitExcept>
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
 | 
						||
<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="LimitInternalRecursion" id="LimitInternalRecursion">LimitInternalRecursion</a> <a name="limitinternalrecursion" id="limitinternalrecursion">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Determine maximum number of internal redirects and nested
 | 
						||
subrequests</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>LimitInternalRecursion <var>number</var> [<var>number</var>]</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>LimitInternalRecursion 10</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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in Apache httpd 2.0.47 and later</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>An internal redirect happens, for example, when using the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_actions.html#action">Action</a></code> directive, which internally
 | 
						||
    redirects the original request to a CGI script. A subrequest is Apache httpd's
 | 
						||
    mechanism to find out what would happen for some URI if it were requested.
 | 
						||
    For example, <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_dir.html">mod_dir</a></code> uses subrequests to look for the
 | 
						||
    files listed in the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_dir.html#directoryindex">DirectoryIndex</a></code>
 | 
						||
    directive.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p><code class="directive">LimitInternalRecursion</code> prevents the server
 | 
						||
    from crashing when entering an infinite loop of internal redirects or
 | 
						||
    subrequests. Such loops are usually caused by misconfigurations.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The directive stores two different limits, which are evaluated on
 | 
						||
    per-request basis. The first <var>number</var> is the maximum number of
 | 
						||
    internal redirects, that may follow each other. The second <var>number</var>
 | 
						||
    determines, how deep subrequests may be nested. If you specify only one
 | 
						||
    <var>number</var>, it will be assigned to both limits.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">LimitInternalRecursion 5</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
 | 
						||
<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="LimitRequestBody" id="LimitRequestBody">LimitRequestBody</a> <a name="limitrequestbody" id="limitrequestbody">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Restricts the total size of the HTTP request body sent
 | 
						||
from the client</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>LimitRequestBody <var>bytes</var></code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>LimitRequestBody 0</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>All</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>This directive specifies the number of <var>bytes</var> from 0
 | 
						||
    (meaning unlimited) to 2147483647 (2GB) that are allowed in a
 | 
						||
    request body. See the note below for the limited applicability
 | 
						||
    to proxy requests.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive">LimitRequestBody</code> directive allows
 | 
						||
    the user to set a limit on the allowed size of an HTTP request
 | 
						||
    message body within the context in which the directive is given
 | 
						||
    (server, per-directory, per-file or per-location). If the client
 | 
						||
    request exceeds that limit, the server will return an error
 | 
						||
    response instead of servicing the request. The size of a normal
 | 
						||
    request message body will vary greatly depending on the nature of
 | 
						||
    the resource and the methods allowed on that resource. CGI scripts
 | 
						||
    typically use the message body for retrieving form information.
 | 
						||
    Implementations of the <code>PUT</code> method will require
 | 
						||
    a value at least as large as any representation that the server
 | 
						||
    wishes to accept for that resource.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>This directive gives the server administrator greater
 | 
						||
    control over abnormal client request behavior, which may be
 | 
						||
    useful for avoiding some forms of denial-of-service
 | 
						||
    attacks.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>If, for example, you are permitting file upload to a particular
 | 
						||
    location, and wish to limit the size of the uploaded file to 100K,
 | 
						||
    you might use the following directive:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">LimitRequestBody 102400</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="note"><p>For a full description of how this directive is interpreted by
 | 
						||
    proxy requests, see the <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_proxy.html">mod_proxy</a></code> documentation.</p>
 | 
						||
    </div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
 | 
						||
<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="LimitRequestFields" id="LimitRequestFields">LimitRequestFields</a> <a name="limitrequestfields" id="limitrequestfields">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Limits the number of HTTP request header fields that
 | 
						||
will be accepted from the client</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>LimitRequestFields <var>number</var></code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>LimitRequestFields 100</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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p><var>Number</var> is an integer from 0 (meaning unlimited) to
 | 
						||
    32767. The default value is defined by the compile-time
 | 
						||
    constant <code>DEFAULT_LIMIT_REQUEST_FIELDS</code> (100 as
 | 
						||
    distributed).</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive">LimitRequestFields</code> directive allows
 | 
						||
    the server administrator to modify the limit on the number of
 | 
						||
    request header fields allowed in an HTTP request. A server needs
 | 
						||
    this value to be larger than the number of fields that a normal
 | 
						||
    client request might include. The number of request header fields
 | 
						||
    used by a client rarely exceeds 20, but this may vary among
 | 
						||
    different client implementations, often depending upon the extent
 | 
						||
    to which a user has configured their browser to support detailed
 | 
						||
    content negotiation. Optional HTTP extensions are often expressed
 | 
						||
    using request header fields.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>This directive gives the server administrator greater
 | 
						||
    control over abnormal client request behavior, which may be
 | 
						||
    useful for avoiding some forms of denial-of-service attacks.
 | 
						||
    The value should be increased if normal clients see an error
 | 
						||
    response from the server that indicates too many fields were
 | 
						||
    sent in the request.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>For example:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">LimitRequestFields 50</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
     <div class="warning"><h3>Warning</h3>
 | 
						||
     <p> When name-based virtual hosting is used, the value for this
 | 
						||
     directive is taken from the default (first-listed) virtual host for the
 | 
						||
     local IP and port combination.</p>
 | 
						||
     </div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
 | 
						||
<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="LimitRequestFieldSize" id="LimitRequestFieldSize">LimitRequestFieldSize</a> <a name="limitrequestfieldsize" id="limitrequestfieldsize">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Limits the size of the HTTP request header allowed from the
 | 
						||
client</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>LimitRequestFieldSize <var>bytes</var></code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>LimitRequestFieldSize 8190</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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>This directive specifies the number of <var>bytes</var>
 | 
						||
    that will be allowed in an HTTP request header.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive">LimitRequestFieldSize</code> directive
 | 
						||
    allows the server administrator to set the limit
 | 
						||
    on the allowed size of an HTTP request header field. A server
 | 
						||
    needs this value to be large enough to hold any one header field
 | 
						||
    from a normal client request. The size of a normal request header
 | 
						||
    field will vary greatly among different client implementations,
 | 
						||
    often depending upon the extent to which a user has configured
 | 
						||
    their browser to support detailed content negotiation. SPNEGO
 | 
						||
    authentication headers can be up to 12392 bytes.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>This directive gives the server administrator greater
 | 
						||
    control over abnormal client request behavior, which may be
 | 
						||
    useful for avoiding some forms of denial-of-service attacks.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>For example:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">LimitRequestFieldSize 4094</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="note">Under normal conditions, the value should not be changed from
 | 
						||
    the default.</div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="warning"><h3>Warning</h3>
 | 
						||
    <p> When name-based virtual hosting is used, the value for this
 | 
						||
    directive is taken from the default (first-listed) virtual host best
 | 
						||
    matching the current IP address and port combination.</p>
 | 
						||
    </div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
 | 
						||
<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="LimitRequestLine" id="LimitRequestLine">LimitRequestLine</a> <a name="limitrequestline" id="limitrequestline">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Limit the size of the HTTP request line that will be accepted
 | 
						||
from the client</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>LimitRequestLine <var>bytes</var></code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>LimitRequestLine 8190</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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>This directive sets the number of <var>bytes</var> that will be
 | 
						||
    allowed on the HTTP request-line.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive">LimitRequestLine</code> directive allows
 | 
						||
    the server administrator to set the limit on the allowed size
 | 
						||
    of a client's HTTP request-line. Since the request-line consists of the
 | 
						||
    HTTP method, URI, and protocol version, the
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive">LimitRequestLine</code> directive places a
 | 
						||
    restriction on the length of a request-URI allowed for a request
 | 
						||
    on the server. A server needs this value to be large enough to
 | 
						||
    hold any of its resource names, including any information that
 | 
						||
    might be passed in the query part of a <code>GET</code> request.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>This directive gives the server administrator greater
 | 
						||
    control over abnormal client request behavior, which may be
 | 
						||
    useful for avoiding some forms of denial-of-service attacks.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>For example:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">LimitRequestLine 4094</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="note">Under normal conditions, the value should not be changed from
 | 
						||
    the default. Also, you can't set this higher than 8190 without
 | 
						||
    modifying the source and rebuilding.</div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="warning"><h3>Warning</h3>
 | 
						||
    <p> When name-based virtual hosting is used, the value for this
 | 
						||
    directive is taken from the default (first-listed) virtual host best
 | 
						||
    matching the current IP address and port combination.</p>
 | 
						||
    </div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
 | 
						||
<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="LimitXMLRequestBody" id="LimitXMLRequestBody">LimitXMLRequestBody</a> <a name="limitxmlrequestbody" id="limitxmlrequestbody">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Limits the size of an XML-based request body</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>LimitXMLRequestBody <var>bytes</var></code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>LimitXMLRequestBody 1000000</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>All</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>Limit (in bytes) on maximum size of an XML-based request
 | 
						||
    body. A value of <code>0</code> will disable any checking.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Example:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">LimitXMLRequestBody 0</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
 | 
						||
<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="Location" id="Location"><Location></a> <a name="location" id="location">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Applies the enclosed directives only to matching
 | 
						||
URLs</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code><Location
 | 
						||
    <var>URL-path</var>|<var>URL</var>> ... </Location></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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive"><Location></code> directive
 | 
						||
    limits the scope of the enclosed directives by URL. It is similar to the
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><a href="#directory"><Directory></a></code>
 | 
						||
    directive, and starts a subsection which is terminated with a
 | 
						||
    <code></Location></code> directive. <code class="directive"><Location></code> sections are processed in the
 | 
						||
    order they appear in the configuration file, after the <code class="directive"><a href="#directory"><Directory></a></code> sections and
 | 
						||
    <code>.htaccess</code> files are read, and after the <code class="directive"><a href="#files"><Files></a></code> sections.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p><code class="directive"><Location></code> sections operate
 | 
						||
    completely outside the filesystem.  This has several consequences.
 | 
						||
    Most importantly, <code class="directive"><Location></code>
 | 
						||
    directives should not be used to control access to filesystem
 | 
						||
    locations.  Since several different URLs may map to the same
 | 
						||
    filesystem location, such access controls may by circumvented.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The enclosed directives will be applied to the request if the path component
 | 
						||
    of the URL meets <em>any</em> of the following criteria:
 | 
						||
    </p>
 | 
						||
    <ul>
 | 
						||
      <li>The specified location matches exactly the path component of the URL.
 | 
						||
      </li>
 | 
						||
      <li>The specified location, which ends in a forward slash, is a prefix
 | 
						||
      of the path component of the URL (treated as a context root).
 | 
						||
      </li>
 | 
						||
      <li>The specified location, with the addition of a trailing slash, is a
 | 
						||
      prefix of the path component of the URL (also treated as a context root).
 | 
						||
      </li>
 | 
						||
    </ul>
 | 
						||
    <p>
 | 
						||
    In the example below, where no trailing slash is used, requests to
 | 
						||
    /private1, /private1/ and /private1/file.txt will have the enclosed
 | 
						||
    directives applied, but /private1other would not.
 | 
						||
    </p>
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<Location /private1>
 | 
						||
    #  ...
 | 
						||
</Location>
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>
 | 
						||
    In the example below, where a trailing slash is used, requests to
 | 
						||
    /private2/ and /private2/file.txt will have the enclosed
 | 
						||
    directives applied, but /private2 and /private2other would not.
 | 
						||
    </p>
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<Location /private2<em>/</em>>
 | 
						||
    # ...
 | 
						||
</Location>
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="note"><h3>When to use <code class="directive"><Location></code></h3>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Use <code class="directive"><Location></code> to apply
 | 
						||
    directives to content that lives outside the filesystem.  For
 | 
						||
    content that lives in the filesystem, use <code class="directive"><a href="#directory"><Directory></a></code> and <code class="directive"><a href="#files"><Files></a></code>.  An exception is
 | 
						||
    <code><Location /></code>, which is an easy way to
 | 
						||
    apply a configuration to the entire server.</p>
 | 
						||
    </div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>For all origin (non-proxy) requests, the URL to be matched is a
 | 
						||
    URL-path of the form <code>/path/</code>.  <em>No scheme, hostname,
 | 
						||
    port, or query string may be included.</em>  For proxy requests, the
 | 
						||
    URL to be matched is of the form
 | 
						||
    <code>scheme://servername/path</code>, and you must include the
 | 
						||
    prefix.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The URL may use wildcards. In a wild-card string, <code>?</code> matches
 | 
						||
    any single character, and <code>*</code> matches any sequences of
 | 
						||
    characters. Neither wildcard character matches a / in the URL-path.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p><a class="glossarylink" href="../glossary.html#regex" title="see glossary">Regular expressions</a>
 | 
						||
    can also be used, with the addition of the <code>~</code>
 | 
						||
    character. For example:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<Location ~ "/(extra|special)/data">
 | 
						||
    #...
 | 
						||
</Location>
 | 
						||
</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>would match URLs that contained the substring <code>/extra/data</code>
 | 
						||
    or <code>/special/data</code>. The directive <code class="directive"><a href="#locationmatch"><LocationMatch></a></code> behaves
 | 
						||
    identical to the regex version of <code class="directive"><Location></code>, and is preferred, for the
 | 
						||
    simple reason that <code>~</code> is hard to distinguish from
 | 
						||
    <code>-</code> in many fonts.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive"><Location></code>
 | 
						||
    functionality is especially useful when combined with the
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><a href="#sethandler">SetHandler</a></code>
 | 
						||
    directive. For example, to enable status requests, but allow them
 | 
						||
    only from browsers at <code>example.com</code>, you might use:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<Location /status>
 | 
						||
  SetHandler server-status
 | 
						||
  Require host example.com
 | 
						||
</Location>
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="note"><h3>Note about / (slash)</h3>
 | 
						||
      <p>The slash character has special meaning depending on where in a
 | 
						||
      URL it appears. People may be used to its behavior in the filesystem
 | 
						||
      where multiple adjacent slashes are frequently collapsed to a single
 | 
						||
      slash (<em>i.e.</em>, <code>/home///foo</code> is the same as
 | 
						||
      <code>/home/foo</code>). In URL-space this is not necessarily true.
 | 
						||
      The <code class="directive"><a href="#locationmatch"><LocationMatch></a></code>
 | 
						||
      directive and the regex version of <code class="directive"><Location></code> require you to explicitly specify multiple
 | 
						||
      slashes if that is your intention.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <p>For example, <code><LocationMatch ^/abc></code> would match
 | 
						||
      the request URL <code>/abc</code> but not the request URL <code>
 | 
						||
      //abc</code>. The (non-regex) <code class="directive"><Location></code> directive behaves similarly when used for
 | 
						||
      proxy requests. But when (non-regex) <code class="directive"><Location></code> is used for non-proxy requests it will
 | 
						||
      implicitly match multiple slashes with a single slash. For example,
 | 
						||
      if you specify <code><Location /abc/def></code> and the
 | 
						||
      request is to <code>/abc//def</code> then it will match.</p>
 | 
						||
    </div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><a href="../sections.html">How <Directory>, <Location>
 | 
						||
    and <Files> sections work</a> for an explanation of how these
 | 
						||
    different sections are combined when a request is received.</li>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#locationmatch">LocationMatch</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="LocationMatch" id="LocationMatch"><LocationMatch></a> <a name="locationmatch" id="locationmatch">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Applies the enclosed directives only to regular-expression
 | 
						||
matching URLs</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code><LocationMatch
 | 
						||
    <var>regex</var>> ... </LocationMatch></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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive"><LocationMatch></code> directive
 | 
						||
    limits the scope of the enclosed directives by URL, in an identical manner
 | 
						||
    to <code class="directive"><a href="#location"><Location></a></code>. However,
 | 
						||
    it takes a <a class="glossarylink" href="../glossary.html#regex" title="see glossary">regular expression</a>
 | 
						||
    as an argument instead of a simple string. For example:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<LocationMatch "/(extra|special)/data">
 | 
						||
    # ...
 | 
						||
</LocationMatch>
 | 
						||
</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>would match URLs that contained the substring <code>/extra/data</code>
 | 
						||
    or <code>/special/data</code>.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><a href="../sections.html">How <Directory>, <Location>
 | 
						||
    and <Files> sections work</a> for an explanation of how these
 | 
						||
    different sections are combined when a request is received</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="LogLevel" id="LogLevel">LogLevel</a> <a name="loglevel" id="loglevel">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Controls the verbosity of the ErrorLog</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>LogLevel [<var>module</var>:]<var>level</var>
 | 
						||
    [<var>module</var>:<var>level</var>] ...
 | 
						||
</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>LogLevel warn</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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Per-module and per-directory configuration is available in
 | 
						||
    Apache HTTP Server 2.3.6 and later</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p><code class="directive">LogLevel</code> adjusts the verbosity of the
 | 
						||
    messages recorded in the error logs (see <code class="directive"><a href="#errorlog">ErrorLog</a></code> directive). The following
 | 
						||
    <var>level</var>s are available, in order of decreasing
 | 
						||
    significance:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <table class="bordered">
 | 
						||
    
 | 
						||
      <tr>
 | 
						||
        <th><strong>Level</strong> </th>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <th><strong>Description</strong> </th>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <th><strong>Example</strong> </th>
 | 
						||
      </tr>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <tr>
 | 
						||
        <td><code>emerg</code> </td>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <td>Emergencies - system is unusable.</td>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <td>"Child cannot open lock file. Exiting"</td>
 | 
						||
      </tr>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <tr>
 | 
						||
        <td><code>alert</code> </td>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <td>Action must be taken immediately.</td>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <td>"getpwuid: couldn't determine user name from uid"</td>
 | 
						||
      </tr>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <tr>
 | 
						||
        <td><code>crit</code> </td>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <td>Critical Conditions.</td>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <td>"socket: Failed to get a socket, exiting child"</td>
 | 
						||
      </tr>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <tr>
 | 
						||
        <td><code>error</code> </td>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <td>Error conditions.</td>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <td>"Premature end of script headers"</td>
 | 
						||
      </tr>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <tr>
 | 
						||
        <td><code>warn</code> </td>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <td>Warning conditions.</td>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <td>"child process 1234 did not exit, sending another
 | 
						||
        SIGHUP"</td>
 | 
						||
      </tr>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <tr>
 | 
						||
        <td><code>notice</code> </td>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <td>Normal but significant condition.</td>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <td>"httpd: caught SIGBUS, attempting to dump core in
 | 
						||
        ..."</td>
 | 
						||
      </tr>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <tr>
 | 
						||
        <td><code>info</code> </td>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <td>Informational.</td>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <td>"Server seems busy, (you may need to increase
 | 
						||
        StartServers, or Min/MaxSpareServers)..."</td>
 | 
						||
      </tr>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <tr>
 | 
						||
        <td><code>debug</code> </td>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <td>Debug-level messages</td>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <td>"Opening config file ..."</td>
 | 
						||
      </tr>
 | 
						||
      <tr>
 | 
						||
        <td><code>trace1</code> </td>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <td>Trace messages</td>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <td>"proxy: FTP: control connection complete"</td>
 | 
						||
      </tr>
 | 
						||
      <tr>
 | 
						||
        <td><code>trace2</code> </td>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <td>Trace messages</td>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <td>"proxy: CONNECT: sending the CONNECT request to the remote proxy"</td>
 | 
						||
      </tr>
 | 
						||
      <tr>
 | 
						||
        <td><code>trace3</code> </td>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <td>Trace messages</td>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <td>"openssl: Handshake: start"</td>
 | 
						||
      </tr>
 | 
						||
      <tr>
 | 
						||
        <td><code>trace4</code> </td>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <td>Trace messages</td>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <td>"read from buffered SSL brigade, mode 0, 17 bytes"</td>
 | 
						||
      </tr>
 | 
						||
      <tr>
 | 
						||
        <td><code>trace5</code> </td>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <td>Trace messages</td>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <td>"map lookup FAILED: map=rewritemap key=keyname"</td>
 | 
						||
      </tr>
 | 
						||
      <tr>
 | 
						||
        <td><code>trace6</code> </td>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <td>Trace messages</td>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <td>"cache lookup FAILED, forcing new map lookup"</td>
 | 
						||
      </tr>
 | 
						||
      <tr>
 | 
						||
        <td><code>trace7</code> </td>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <td>Trace messages, dumping large amounts of data</td>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <td>"| 0000: 02 23 44 30 13 40 ac 34 df 3d bf 9a 19 49 39 15 |"</td>
 | 
						||
      </tr>
 | 
						||
      <tr>
 | 
						||
        <td><code>trace8</code> </td>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <td>Trace messages, dumping large amounts of data</td>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <td>"| 0000: 02 23 44 30 13 40 ac 34 df 3d bf 9a 19 49 39 15 |"</td>
 | 
						||
      </tr>
 | 
						||
    </table>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>When a particular level is specified, messages from all
 | 
						||
    other levels of higher significance will be reported as well.
 | 
						||
    <em>E.g.</em>, when <code>LogLevel info</code> is specified,
 | 
						||
    then messages with log levels of <code>notice</code> and
 | 
						||
    <code>warn</code> will also be posted.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Using a level of at least <code>crit</code> is
 | 
						||
    recommended.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>For example:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">LogLevel notice</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="note"><h3>Note</h3>
 | 
						||
      <p>When logging to a regular file messages of the level
 | 
						||
      <code>notice</code> cannot be suppressed and thus are always
 | 
						||
      logged. However, this doesn't apply when logging is done
 | 
						||
      using <code>syslog</code>.</p>
 | 
						||
    </div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Specifying a level without a module name will reset the level
 | 
						||
    for all modules to that level.  Specifying a level with a module
 | 
						||
    name will set the level for that module only. It is possible to
 | 
						||
    use the module source file name, the module identifier, or the
 | 
						||
    module identifier with the trailing <code>_module</code> omitted
 | 
						||
    as module specification. This means the following three specifications
 | 
						||
    are equivalent:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
LogLevel info ssl:warn
 | 
						||
LogLevel info mod_ssl.c:warn
 | 
						||
LogLevel info ssl_module:warn
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>It is also possible to change the level per directory:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
LogLevel info
 | 
						||
<Directory "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/app">
 | 
						||
  LogLevel debug
 | 
						||
</Directory>
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="note">
 | 
						||
        Per directory loglevel configuration only affects messages that are
 | 
						||
	logged after the request has been parsed and that are associated with
 | 
						||
	the request. Log messages which are associated with the connection or
 | 
						||
	the server are not affected.
 | 
						||
    </div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
 | 
						||
<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="MaxKeepAliveRequests" id="MaxKeepAliveRequests">MaxKeepAliveRequests</a> <a name="maxkeepaliverequests" id="maxkeepaliverequests">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Number of requests allowed on a persistent
 | 
						||
connection</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MaxKeepAliveRequests <var>number</var></code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MaxKeepAliveRequests 100</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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive">MaxKeepAliveRequests</code> directive
 | 
						||
    limits the number of requests allowed per connection when
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><a href="#keepalive">KeepAlive</a></code> is on. If it is
 | 
						||
    set to <code>0</code>, unlimited requests will be allowed. We
 | 
						||
    recommend that this setting be kept to a high value for maximum
 | 
						||
    server performance.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>For example:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">MaxKeepAliveRequests 500</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
 | 
						||
<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="MaxRangeOverlaps" id="MaxRangeOverlaps">MaxRangeOverlaps</a> <a name="maxrangeoverlaps" id="maxrangeoverlaps">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Number of overlapping ranges (eg: <code>100-200,150-300</code>) allowed before returning the complete
 | 
						||
        resource </td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MaxRangeOverlaps default | unlimited | none | <var>number-of-ranges</var></code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MaxRangeOverlaps 20</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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in Apache HTTP Server 2.3.15 and later</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
        <p>The <code class="directive">MaxRangeOverlaps</code> directive
 | 
						||
            limits the number of overlapping HTTP ranges the server is willing to
 | 
						||
            return to the client.  If more overlapping ranges then permitted are requested,
 | 
						||
            the complete resource is returned instead.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <dl>
 | 
						||
            <dt><strong>default</strong></dt>
 | 
						||
            <dd>Limits the number of overlapping ranges to a compile-time default of 20.</dd>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
            <dt><strong>none</strong></dt>
 | 
						||
            <dd>No overlapping Range headers are allowed.</dd>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
            <dt><strong>unlimited</strong></dt>
 | 
						||
            <dd>The server does not limit the number of overlapping ranges it is
 | 
						||
                willing to satisfy.</dd>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
            <dt><var>number-of-ranges</var></dt>
 | 
						||
            <dd>A positive number representing the maximum number of overlapping ranges the
 | 
						||
                server is willing to satisfy.</dd>
 | 
						||
        </dl>
 | 
						||
    
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
 | 
						||
<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="MaxRangeReversals" id="MaxRangeReversals">MaxRangeReversals</a> <a name="maxrangereversals" id="maxrangereversals">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Number of range reversals (eg: <code>100-200,50-70</code>) allowed before returning the complete
 | 
						||
        resource </td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MaxRangeReversals default | unlimited | none | <var>number-of-ranges</var></code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MaxRangeReversals 20</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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in Apache HTTP Server 2.3.15 and later</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
        <p>The <code class="directive">MaxRangeReversals</code> directive
 | 
						||
            limits the number of HTTP Range reversals the server is willing to
 | 
						||
            return to the client.  If more ranges reversals then permitted are requested,
 | 
						||
            the complete resource is returned instead.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <dl>
 | 
						||
            <dt><strong>default</strong></dt>
 | 
						||
            <dd>Limits the number of range reversals to a compile-time default of 20.</dd>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
            <dt><strong>none</strong></dt>
 | 
						||
            <dd>No Range reversals headers are allowed.</dd>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
            <dt><strong>unlimited</strong></dt>
 | 
						||
            <dd>The server does not limit the number of range reversals it is
 | 
						||
                willing to satisfy.</dd>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
            <dt><var>number-of-ranges</var></dt>
 | 
						||
            <dd>A positive number representing the maximum number of range reversals the
 | 
						||
                server is willing to satisfy.</dd>
 | 
						||
        </dl>
 | 
						||
    
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
 | 
						||
<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="MaxRanges" id="MaxRanges">MaxRanges</a> <a name="maxranges" id="maxranges">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Number of ranges allowed before returning the complete
 | 
						||
resource </td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MaxRanges default | unlimited | none | <var>number-of-ranges</var></code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MaxRanges 200</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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in Apache HTTP Server 2.3.15 and later</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive">MaxRanges</code> directive
 | 
						||
    limits the number of HTTP ranges the server is willing to
 | 
						||
    return to the client.  If more ranges then permitted are requested,
 | 
						||
    the complete resource is returned instead.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <dl>
 | 
						||
      <dt><strong>default</strong></dt>
 | 
						||
      <dd>Limits the number of ranges to a compile-time default of 200.</dd>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dt><strong>none</strong></dt>
 | 
						||
      <dd>Range headers are ignored.</dd>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dt><strong>unlimited</strong></dt>
 | 
						||
      <dd>The server does not limit the number of ranges it is
 | 
						||
          willing to satisfy.</dd>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dt><var>number-of-ranges</var></dt>
 | 
						||
      <dd>A positive number representing the maximum number of ranges the
 | 
						||
      server is willing to satisfy.</dd>
 | 
						||
    </dl>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
 | 
						||
<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="Mutex" id="Mutex">Mutex</a> <a name="mutex" id="mutex">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Configures mutex mechanism and lock file directory for all
 | 
						||
or specified mutexes</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>Mutex <var>mechanism</var> [default|<var>mutex-name</var>] ... [OmitPID]</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>Mutex default</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in Apache HTTP Server 2.3.4 and later</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive">Mutex</code> directive sets the mechanism,
 | 
						||
    and optionally the lock file location, that httpd and modules use
 | 
						||
    to serialize access to resources.  Specify <code>default</code> as
 | 
						||
    the first argument to change the settings for all mutexes; specify
 | 
						||
    a mutex name (see table below) as the first argument to override
 | 
						||
    defaults only for that mutex.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive">Mutex</code> directive is typically used in
 | 
						||
    the following exceptional situations:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <ul>
 | 
						||
        <li>change the mutex mechanism when the default mechanism selected
 | 
						||
        by <a class="glossarylink" href="../glossary.html#apr" title="see glossary">APR</a> has a functional or performance
 | 
						||
        problem</li>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <li>change the directory used by file-based mutexes when the
 | 
						||
        default directory does not support locking</li>
 | 
						||
    </ul>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="note"><h3>Supported modules</h3>
 | 
						||
    <p>This directive only configures mutexes which have been registered
 | 
						||
    with the core server using the <code>ap_mutex_register()</code> API.
 | 
						||
    All modules bundled with httpd support the <code class="directive">Mutex</code>
 | 
						||
    directive, but third-party modules may not.  Consult the documentation
 | 
						||
    of the third-party module, which must indicate the mutex name(s) which
 | 
						||
    can be configured if this directive is supported.</p>
 | 
						||
    </div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The following mutex <em>mechanisms</em> are available:</p>
 | 
						||
    <ul>
 | 
						||
        <li><code>default | yes</code>
 | 
						||
        <p>This selects the default locking implementation, as determined by
 | 
						||
        <a class="glossarylink" href="../glossary.html#apr" title="see glossary">APR</a>.  The default locking implementation can
 | 
						||
        be displayed by running <code class="program"><a href="../programs/httpd.html">httpd</a></code> with the
 | 
						||
        <code>-V</code> option.</p></li>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <li><code>none | no</code>
 | 
						||
        <p>This effectively disables the mutex, and is only allowed for a
 | 
						||
        mutex if the module indicates that it is a valid choice.  Consult the
 | 
						||
        module documentation for more information.</p></li>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <li><code>posixsem</code>
 | 
						||
        <p>This is a mutex variant based on a Posix semaphore.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <div class="warning"><h3>Warning</h3>
 | 
						||
        <p>The semaphore ownership is not recovered if a thread in the process
 | 
						||
        holding the mutex segfaults, resulting in a hang of the web server.</p>
 | 
						||
        </div>
 | 
						||
        </li>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <li><code>sysvsem</code>
 | 
						||
        <p>This is a mutex variant based on a SystemV IPC semaphore.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <div class="warning"><h3>Warning</h3>
 | 
						||
        <p>It is possible to "leak" SysV semaphores if processes crash
 | 
						||
        before the semaphore is removed.</p>
 | 
						||
	</div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <div class="warning"><h3>Security</h3>
 | 
						||
        <p>The semaphore API allows for a denial of service attack by any
 | 
						||
        CGIs running under the same uid as the webserver (<em>i.e.</em>,
 | 
						||
        all CGIs, unless you use something like <code class="program"><a href="../programs/suexec.html">suexec</a></code>
 | 
						||
        or <code>cgiwrapper</code>).</p>
 | 
						||
	</div>
 | 
						||
        </li>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <li><code>sem</code>
 | 
						||
        <p>This selects the "best" available semaphore implementation, choosing
 | 
						||
        between Posix and SystemV IPC semaphores, in that order.</p></li>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <li><code>pthread</code>
 | 
						||
        <p>This is a mutex variant based on cross-process Posix thread
 | 
						||
        mutexes.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <div class="warning"><h3>Warning</h3>
 | 
						||
        <p>On most systems, if a child process terminates abnormally while
 | 
						||
        holding a mutex that uses this implementation, the server will deadlock
 | 
						||
        and stop responding to requests.  When this occurs, the server will
 | 
						||
        require a manual restart to recover.</p>
 | 
						||
        <p>Solaris is a notable exception as it provides a mechanism which
 | 
						||
        usually allows the mutex to be recovered after a child process
 | 
						||
        terminates abnormally while holding a mutex.</p>
 | 
						||
        <p>If your system implements the
 | 
						||
        <code>pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np()</code> function, you may be able
 | 
						||
        to use the <code>pthread</code> option safely.</p>
 | 
						||
        </div>
 | 
						||
        </li>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <li><code>fcntl:/path/to/mutex</code>
 | 
						||
        <p>This is a mutex variant where a physical (lock-)file and the
 | 
						||
        <code>fcntl()</code> function are used as the mutex.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <div class="warning"><h3>Warning</h3>
 | 
						||
        <p>When multiple mutexes based on this mechanism are used within
 | 
						||
        multi-threaded, multi-process environments, deadlock errors (EDEADLK)
 | 
						||
        can be reported for valid mutex operations if <code>fcntl()</code>
 | 
						||
        is not thread-aware, such as on Solaris.</p>
 | 
						||
	</div>
 | 
						||
        </li>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <li><code>flock:/path/to/mutex</code>
 | 
						||
        <p>This is similar to the <code>fcntl:/path/to/mutex</code> method
 | 
						||
        with the exception that the <code>flock()</code> function is used to
 | 
						||
        provide file locking.</p></li>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
        <li><code>file:/path/to/mutex</code>
 | 
						||
        <p>This selects the "best" available file locking implementation,
 | 
						||
        choosing between <code>fcntl</code> and <code>flock</code>, in that
 | 
						||
        order.</p></li>
 | 
						||
    </ul>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Most mechanisms are only available on selected platforms, where the
 | 
						||
    underlying platform and <a class="glossarylink" href="../glossary.html#apr" title="see glossary">APR</a> support it.  Mechanisms
 | 
						||
    which aren't available on all platforms are <em>posixsem</em>,
 | 
						||
    <em>sysvsem</em>, <em>sem</em>, <em>pthread</em>, <em>fcntl</em>,
 | 
						||
    <em>flock</em>, and <em>file</em>.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>With the file-based mechanisms <em>fcntl</em> and <em>flock</em>,
 | 
						||
    the path, if provided, is a directory where the lock file will be created.
 | 
						||
    The default directory is httpd's run-time file directory,
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><a href="#defaultruntimedir">DefaultRuntimeDir</a></code>.  If a relative
 | 
						||
    path is provided, it is relative to
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><a href="#defaultruntimedir">DefaultRuntimeDir</a></code>.  Always use a local
 | 
						||
    disk filesystem for <code>/path/to/mutex</code> and never a directory residing
 | 
						||
    on a NFS- or AFS-filesystem.  The basename of the file will be the mutex
 | 
						||
    type, an optional instance string provided by the module, and unless the
 | 
						||
    <code>OmitPID</code> keyword is specified, the process id of the httpd
 | 
						||
    parent process will be appended to to make the file name unique, avoiding
 | 
						||
    conflicts when multiple httpd instances share a lock file directory.  For
 | 
						||
    example, if the mutex name is <code>mpm-accept</code> and the lock file
 | 
						||
    directory is <code>/var/httpd/locks</code>, the lock file name for the
 | 
						||
    httpd instance with parent process id 12345 would be
 | 
						||
    <code>/var/httpd/locks/mpm-accept.12345</code>.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="warning"><h3>Security</h3>
 | 
						||
    <p>It is best to <em>avoid</em> putting mutex files in a world-writable
 | 
						||
    directory such as <code>/var/tmp</code> because someone could create
 | 
						||
    a denial of service attack and prevent the server from starting by
 | 
						||
    creating a lockfile with the same name as the one the server will try
 | 
						||
    to create.</p>
 | 
						||
    </div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The following table documents the names of mutexes used by httpd
 | 
						||
    and bundled modules.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <table class="bordered"><tr class="header">
 | 
						||
            <th>Mutex name</th>
 | 
						||
            <th>Module(s)</th>
 | 
						||
            <th>Protected resource</th>
 | 
						||
	</tr>
 | 
						||
<tr>
 | 
						||
            <td><code>mpm-accept</code></td>
 | 
						||
            <td><code class="module"><a href="../mod/prefork.html">prefork</a></code> and <code class="module"><a href="../mod/worker.html">worker</a></code> MPMs</td>
 | 
						||
            <td>incoming connections, to avoid the thundering herd problem;
 | 
						||
            for more information, refer to the
 | 
						||
            <a href="../misc/perf-tuning.html">performance tuning</a>
 | 
						||
            documentation</td>
 | 
						||
	</tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="odd">
 | 
						||
            <td><code>authdigest-client</code></td>
 | 
						||
            <td><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_auth_digest.html">mod_auth_digest</a></code></td>
 | 
						||
            <td>client list in shared memory</td>
 | 
						||
	</tr>
 | 
						||
<tr>
 | 
						||
            <td><code>authdigest-opaque</code></td>
 | 
						||
            <td><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_auth_digest.html">mod_auth_digest</a></code></td>
 | 
						||
            <td>counter in shared memory</td>
 | 
						||
	</tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="odd">
 | 
						||
            <td><code>ldap-cache</code></td>
 | 
						||
            <td><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_ldap.html">mod_ldap</a></code></td>
 | 
						||
            <td>LDAP result cache</td>
 | 
						||
	</tr>
 | 
						||
<tr>
 | 
						||
            <td><code>rewrite-map</code></td>
 | 
						||
            <td><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code></td>
 | 
						||
            <td>communication with external mapping programs, to avoid
 | 
						||
            intermixed I/O from multiple requests</td>
 | 
						||
	</tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="odd">
 | 
						||
            <td><code>ssl-cache</code></td>
 | 
						||
            <td><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_ssl.html">mod_ssl</a></code></td>
 | 
						||
            <td>SSL session cache</td>
 | 
						||
	</tr>
 | 
						||
<tr>
 | 
						||
            <td><code>ssl-stapling</code></td>
 | 
						||
            <td><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_ssl.html">mod_ssl</a></code></td>
 | 
						||
            <td>OCSP stapling response cache</td>
 | 
						||
	</tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="odd">
 | 
						||
            <td><code>watchdog-callback</code></td>
 | 
						||
            <td><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_watchdog.html">mod_watchdog</a></code></td>
 | 
						||
            <td>callback function of a particular client module</td>
 | 
						||
	</tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code>OmitPID</code> keyword suppresses the addition of the httpd
 | 
						||
    parent process id from the lock file name.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>In the following example, the mutex mechanism for the MPM accept
 | 
						||
    mutex will be changed from the compiled-in default to <code>fcntl</code>,
 | 
						||
    with the associated lock file created in directory
 | 
						||
    <code>/var/httpd/locks</code>.  The mutex mechanism for all other mutexes
 | 
						||
    will be changed from the compiled-in default to <code>sysvsem</code>.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
Mutex sysvsem default
 | 
						||
Mutex fcntl:/var/httpd/locks mpm-accept
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
 | 
						||
<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="NameVirtualHost" id="NameVirtualHost">NameVirtualHost</a> <a name="namevirtualhost" id="namevirtualhost">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>DEPRECATED: Designates an IP address for name-virtual
 | 
						||
hosting</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>NameVirtualHost <var>addr</var>[:<var>port</var>]</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<p>Prior to 2.3.11, <code class="directive">NameVirtualHost</code> was required
 | 
						||
to instruct the server that a particular IP address and port combination
 | 
						||
was usable as a name-based virtual host.  In 2.3.11 and later,
 | 
						||
any time an IP address and port combination is used in multiple virtual
 | 
						||
hosts, name-based virtual hosting is automatically enabled for that address.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<p>This directive currently has no effect.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><a href="../vhosts/">Virtual Hosts
 | 
						||
documentation</a></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="Options" id="Options">Options</a> <a name="options" id="options">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Configures what features are available in a particular
 | 
						||
directory</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>Options
 | 
						||
    [+|-]<var>option</var> [[+|-]<var>option</var>] ...</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>Options FollowSymlinks</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>Options</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>The default was changed from All to FollowSymlinks in 2.3.11</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive">Options</code> directive controls which
 | 
						||
    server features are available in a particular directory.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p><var>option</var> can be set to <code>None</code>, in which
 | 
						||
    case none of the extra features are enabled, or one or more of
 | 
						||
    the following:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <dl>
 | 
						||
      <dt><code>All</code></dt>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dd>All options except for <code>MultiViews</code>.</dd>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dt><code>ExecCGI</code></dt>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dd>
 | 
						||
      Execution of CGI scripts using <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_cgi.html">mod_cgi</a></code>
 | 
						||
      is permitted.</dd>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dt><code>FollowSymLinks</code></dt>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dd>
 | 
						||
      The server will follow symbolic links in this directory. This is
 | 
						||
      the default setting.
 | 
						||
      <div class="note">
 | 
						||
      <p>Even though the server follows the symlink it does <em>not</em>
 | 
						||
      change the pathname used to match against <code class="directive"><a href="#directory"><Directory></a></code> sections.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <p>The <code>FollowSymLinks</code> and
 | 
						||
      <code>SymLinksIfOwnerMatch</code> <code class="directive"><a href="#options">Options</a></code> work only in <code class="directive"><a href="#directory"><Directory></a></code> sections or
 | 
						||
      <code>.htaccess</code> files.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <p>Omitting this option should not be considered a security restriction,
 | 
						||
      since symlink testing is subject to race conditions that make it
 | 
						||
      circumventable.</p>
 | 
						||
      </div></dd>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dt><code>Includes</code></dt>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dd>
 | 
						||
      Server-side includes provided by <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_include.html">mod_include</a></code>
 | 
						||
      are permitted.</dd>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dt><code>IncludesNOEXEC</code></dt>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dd>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      Server-side includes are permitted, but the <code>#exec
 | 
						||
      cmd</code> and <code>#exec cgi</code> are disabled. It is still
 | 
						||
      possible to <code>#include virtual</code> CGI scripts from
 | 
						||
      <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_alias.html#scriptalias">ScriptAlias</a></code>ed
 | 
						||
      directories.</dd>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dt><code>Indexes</code></dt>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dd>
 | 
						||
      If a URL which maps to a directory is requested, and there
 | 
						||
      is no <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_dir.html#directoryindex">DirectoryIndex</a></code>
 | 
						||
      (<em>e.g.</em>, <code>index.html</code>) in that directory, then
 | 
						||
      <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_autoindex.html">mod_autoindex</a></code> will return a formatted listing
 | 
						||
      of the directory.</dd>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dt><code>MultiViews</code></dt>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dd>
 | 
						||
      <a href="../content-negotiation.html">Content negotiated</a>
 | 
						||
      "MultiViews" are allowed using
 | 
						||
      <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_negotiation.html">mod_negotiation</a></code>.
 | 
						||
      <div class="note"><h3>Note</h3> <p>This option gets ignored if set
 | 
						||
      anywhere other than <code class="directive"><a href="#directory"><Directory></a></code>, as <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_negotiation.html">mod_negotiation</a></code>
 | 
						||
      needs real resources to compare against and evaluate from.</p></div>
 | 
						||
      </dd>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dt><code>SymLinksIfOwnerMatch</code></dt>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dd>The server will only follow symbolic links for which the
 | 
						||
      target file or directory is owned by the same user id as the
 | 
						||
      link.
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <div class="note"><h3>Note</h3>
 | 
						||
      <p>The <code>FollowSymLinks</code> and
 | 
						||
      <code>SymLinksIfOwnerMatch</code> <code class="directive"><a href="#options">Options</a></code> work only in <code class="directive"><a href="#directory"><Directory></a></code> sections or
 | 
						||
      <code>.htaccess</code> files.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <p>This option should not be considered a security restriction,
 | 
						||
      since symlink testing is subject to race conditions that make it
 | 
						||
      circumventable.</p>
 | 
						||
      </div> </dd>
 | 
						||
    </dl>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Normally, if multiple <code class="directive">Options</code> could
 | 
						||
    apply to a directory, then the most specific one is used and
 | 
						||
    others are ignored; the options are not merged. (See <a href="../sections.html#mergin">how sections are merged</a>.)
 | 
						||
    However if <em>all</em> the options on the
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive">Options</code> directive are preceded by a
 | 
						||
    <code>+</code> or <code>-</code> symbol, the options are
 | 
						||
    merged. Any options preceded by a <code>+</code> are added to the
 | 
						||
    options currently in force, and any options preceded by a
 | 
						||
    <code>-</code> are removed from the options currently in
 | 
						||
    force. </p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="note"><h3>Note</h3>
 | 
						||
    <p>Mixing <code class="directive">Options</code> with a <code>+</code> or
 | 
						||
    <code>-</code> with those without is not valid syntax, and will be
 | 
						||
    rejected during server startup by the syntax check with an abort.</p>
 | 
						||
    </div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>For example, without any <code>+</code> and <code>-</code> symbols:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<Directory "/web/docs">
 | 
						||
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
 | 
						||
</Directory>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<Directory "/web/docs/spec">
 | 
						||
  Options Includes
 | 
						||
</Directory>
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>then only <code>Includes</code> will be set for the
 | 
						||
    <code>/web/docs/spec</code> directory. However if the second
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive">Options</code> directive uses the <code>+</code> and
 | 
						||
    <code>-</code> symbols:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<Directory "/web/docs">
 | 
						||
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
 | 
						||
</Directory>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<Directory "/web/docs/spec">
 | 
						||
  Options +Includes -Indexes
 | 
						||
</Directory>
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>then the options <code>FollowSymLinks</code> and
 | 
						||
    <code>Includes</code> are set for the <code>/web/docs/spec</code>
 | 
						||
    directory.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="note"><h3>Note</h3>
 | 
						||
      <p>Using <code>-IncludesNOEXEC</code> or
 | 
						||
      <code>-Includes</code> disables server-side includes completely
 | 
						||
      regardless of the previous setting.</p>
 | 
						||
    </div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The default in the absence of any other settings is
 | 
						||
    <code>FollowSymlinks</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="Protocol" id="Protocol">Protocol</a> <a name="protocol" id="protocol">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Protocol for a listening socket</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>Protocol <var>protocol</var></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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in Apache 2.1.5 and later.
 | 
						||
On Windows from Apache 2.3.3 and later.</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>This directive specifies the protocol used for a specific listening socket.
 | 
						||
       The protocol is used to determine which module should handle a request, and
 | 
						||
       to apply protocol specific optimizations with the <code class="directive">AcceptFilter</code>
 | 
						||
       directive.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>You only need to set the protocol if you are running on non-standard ports, otherwise <code>http</code> is assumed for port 80 and <code>https</code> for port 443.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>For example, if you are running <code>https</code> on a non-standard port, specify the protocol explicitly:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">Protocol https</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>You can also specify the protocol using the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mpm_common.html#listen">Listen</a></code> directive.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#acceptfilter">AcceptFilter</a></code></li>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mpm_common.html#listen">Listen</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="RLimitCPU" id="RLimitCPU">RLimitCPU</a> <a name="rlimitcpu" id="rlimitcpu">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Limits the CPU consumption of processes launched
 | 
						||
by Apache httpd children</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>RLimitCPU <var>seconds</var>|max [<var>seconds</var>|max]</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>Unset; uses operating system defaults</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>All</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>Takes 1 or 2 parameters. The first parameter sets the soft
 | 
						||
    resource limit for all processes and the second parameter sets
 | 
						||
    the maximum resource limit. Either parameter can be a number,
 | 
						||
    or <code>max</code> to indicate to the server that the limit should
 | 
						||
    be set to the maximum allowed by the operating system
 | 
						||
    configuration. Raising the maximum resource limit requires that
 | 
						||
    the server is running as <code>root</code>, or in the initial startup
 | 
						||
    phase.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>This applies to processes forked off from Apache httpd children
 | 
						||
    servicing requests, not the Apache httpd children themselves. This
 | 
						||
    includes CGI scripts and SSI exec commands, but not any
 | 
						||
    processes forked off from the Apache httpd parent such as piped
 | 
						||
    logs.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>CPU resource limits are expressed in seconds per
 | 
						||
    process.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#rlimitmem">RLimitMEM</a></code></li>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#rlimitnproc">RLimitNPROC</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="RLimitMEM" id="RLimitMEM">RLimitMEM</a> <a name="rlimitmem" id="rlimitmem">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Limits the memory consumption of processes launched
 | 
						||
by Apache httpd children</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>RLimitMEM <var>bytes</var>|max [<var>bytes</var>|max]</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>Unset; uses operating system defaults</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>All</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>Takes 1 or 2 parameters. The first parameter sets the soft
 | 
						||
    resource limit for all processes and the second parameter sets
 | 
						||
    the maximum resource limit. Either parameter can be a number,
 | 
						||
    or <code>max</code> to indicate to the server that the limit should
 | 
						||
    be set to the maximum allowed by the operating system
 | 
						||
    configuration. Raising the maximum resource limit requires that
 | 
						||
    the server is running as <code>root</code>, or in the initial startup
 | 
						||
    phase.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>This applies to processes forked off from Apache httpd children
 | 
						||
    servicing requests, not the Apache httpd children themselves. This
 | 
						||
    includes CGI scripts and SSI exec commands, but not any
 | 
						||
    processes forked off from the Apache httpd parent such as piped
 | 
						||
    logs.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Memory resource limits are expressed in bytes per
 | 
						||
    process.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#rlimitcpu">RLimitCPU</a></code></li>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#rlimitnproc">RLimitNPROC</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="RLimitNPROC" id="RLimitNPROC">RLimitNPROC</a> <a name="rlimitnproc" id="rlimitnproc">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Limits the number of processes that can be launched by
 | 
						||
processes launched by Apache httpd children</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>RLimitNPROC <var>number</var>|max [<var>number</var>|max]</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>Unset; uses operating system defaults</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>All</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>Takes 1 or 2 parameters. The first parameter sets the soft
 | 
						||
    resource limit for all processes and the second parameter sets
 | 
						||
    the maximum resource limit. Either parameter can be a number,
 | 
						||
    or <code>max</code> to indicate to the server that the limit
 | 
						||
    should be set to the maximum allowed by the operating system
 | 
						||
    configuration. Raising the maximum resource limit requires that
 | 
						||
    the server is running as <code>root</code>, or in the initial startup
 | 
						||
    phase.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>This applies to processes forked off from Apache httpd children
 | 
						||
    servicing requests, not the Apache httpd children themselves. This
 | 
						||
    includes CGI scripts and SSI exec commands, but not any
 | 
						||
    processes forked off from the Apache httpd parent such as piped
 | 
						||
    logs.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Process limits control the number of processes per user.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="note"><h3>Note</h3>
 | 
						||
      <p>If CGI processes are <strong>not</strong> running
 | 
						||
      under user ids other than the web server user id, this directive
 | 
						||
      will limit the number of processes that the server itself can
 | 
						||
      create. Evidence of this situation will be indicated by
 | 
						||
      <strong><code>cannot fork</code></strong> messages in the
 | 
						||
      <code>error_log</code>.</p>
 | 
						||
    </div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#rlimitmem">RLimitMEM</a></code></li>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#rlimitcpu">RLimitCPU</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="ScriptInterpreterSource" id="ScriptInterpreterSource">ScriptInterpreterSource</a> <a name="scriptinterpretersource" id="scriptinterpretersource">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Technique for locating the interpreter for CGI
 | 
						||
scripts</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>ScriptInterpreterSource Registry|Registry-Strict|Script</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>ScriptInterpreterSource Script</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>FileInfo</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Win32 only;
 | 
						||
option <code>Registry-Strict</code> is available in Apache HTTP Server 2.0 and
 | 
						||
later</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>This directive is used to control how Apache httpd finds the
 | 
						||
    interpreter used to run CGI scripts. The default setting is
 | 
						||
    <code>Script</code>. This causes Apache httpd to use the interpreter pointed to
 | 
						||
    by the shebang line (first line, starting with <code>#!</code>) in the
 | 
						||
    script. On Win32 systems this line usually looks like:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-perl">#!C:/Perl/bin/perl.exe</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>or, if <code>perl</code> is in the <code>PATH</code>, simply:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-perl">#!perl</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Setting <code>ScriptInterpreterSource Registry</code> will
 | 
						||
    cause the Windows Registry tree <code>HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT</code> to be
 | 
						||
    searched using the script file extension (e.g., <code>.pl</code>) as a
 | 
						||
    search key. The command defined by the registry subkey
 | 
						||
    <code>Shell\ExecCGI\Command</code> or, if it does not exist, by the subkey
 | 
						||
    <code>Shell\Open\Command</code> is used to open the script file. If the
 | 
						||
    registry keys cannot be found, Apache httpd falls back to the behavior of the
 | 
						||
    <code>Script</code> option.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="warning"><h3>Security</h3>
 | 
						||
    <p>Be careful when using <code>ScriptInterpreterSource
 | 
						||
    Registry</code> with <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_alias.html#scriptalias">ScriptAlias</a></code>'ed directories, because
 | 
						||
    Apache httpd will try to execute <strong>every</strong> file within this
 | 
						||
    directory. The <code>Registry</code> setting may cause undesired
 | 
						||
    program calls on files which are typically not executed. For
 | 
						||
    example, the default open command on <code>.htm</code> files on
 | 
						||
    most Windows systems will execute Microsoft Internet Explorer, so
 | 
						||
    any HTTP request for an <code>.htm</code> file existing within the
 | 
						||
    script directory would start the browser in the background on the
 | 
						||
    server. This is a good way to crash your system within a minute or
 | 
						||
    so.</p>
 | 
						||
    </div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The option <code>Registry-Strict</code> which is new in Apache HTTP Server
 | 
						||
    2.0 does the same thing as <code>Registry</code> but uses only the
 | 
						||
    subkey <code>Shell\ExecCGI\Command</code>. The
 | 
						||
    <code>ExecCGI</code> key is not a common one. It must be
 | 
						||
    configured manually in the windows registry and hence prevents
 | 
						||
    accidental program calls on your system.</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="SeeRequestTail" id="SeeRequestTail">SeeRequestTail</a> <a name="seerequesttail" id="seerequesttail">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Determine if mod_status displays the first 63 characters
 | 
						||
of a request or the last 63, assuming the request itself is greater than
 | 
						||
63 chars.</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>SeeRequestTail On|Off</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>SeeRequestTail Off</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in Apache httpd 2.2.7 and later.</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>mod_status with <code>ExtendedStatus On</code>
 | 
						||
    displays the actual request being handled.
 | 
						||
    For historical purposes, only 63 characters of the request
 | 
						||
    are actually stored for display purposes. This directive
 | 
						||
    controls whether the 1st 63 characters are stored (the previous
 | 
						||
    behavior and the default) or if the last 63 characters are. This
 | 
						||
    is only applicable, of course, if the length of the request is
 | 
						||
    64 characters or greater.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>If Apache httpd is handling <code>GET /disk1/storage/apache/htdocs/images/imagestore1/food/apples.jpg HTTP/1.1</code> mod_status displays as follows:
 | 
						||
    </p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <table class="bordered">
 | 
						||
      <tr>
 | 
						||
        <th>Off (default)</th>
 | 
						||
        <td>GET /disk1/storage/apache/htdocs/images/imagestore1/food/apples</td>
 | 
						||
      </tr>
 | 
						||
      <tr>
 | 
						||
        <th>On</th>
 | 
						||
        <td>orage/apache/htdocs/images/imagestore1/food/apples.jpg HTTP/1.1</td>
 | 
						||
      </tr>
 | 
						||
    </table>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
 | 
						||
<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="ServerAdmin" id="ServerAdmin">ServerAdmin</a> <a name="serveradmin" id="serveradmin">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Email address that the server includes in error
 | 
						||
messages sent to the client</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>ServerAdmin <var>email-address</var>|<var>URL</var></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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive">ServerAdmin</code> sets the contact address
 | 
						||
    that the server includes in any error messages it returns to the
 | 
						||
    client. If the <code>httpd</code> doesn't recognize the supplied argument
 | 
						||
    as an URL, it
 | 
						||
    assumes, that it's an <var>email-address</var> and prepends it with
 | 
						||
    <code>mailto:</code> in hyperlink targets. However, it's recommended to
 | 
						||
    actually use an email address, since there are a lot of CGI scripts that
 | 
						||
    make that assumption. If you want to use an URL, it should point to another
 | 
						||
    server under your control. Otherwise users may not be able to contact you in
 | 
						||
    case of errors.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>It may be worth setting up a dedicated address for this, e.g.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">ServerAdmin www-admin@foo.example.com</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>as users do not always mention that they are talking about the
 | 
						||
    server!</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="ServerAlias" id="ServerAlias">ServerAlias</a> <a name="serveralias" id="serveralias">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Alternate names for a host used when matching requests
 | 
						||
to name-virtual hosts</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>ServerAlias <var>hostname</var> [<var>hostname</var>] ...</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>virtual host</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive">ServerAlias</code> directive sets the
 | 
						||
    alternate names for a host, for use with <a href="../vhosts/name-based.html">name-based virtual hosts</a>. The
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive">ServerAlias</code> may include wildcards, if appropriate.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<VirtualHost *:80>
 | 
						||
  ServerName server.example.com
 | 
						||
  ServerAlias server server2.example.com server2
 | 
						||
  ServerAlias *.example.com
 | 
						||
  UseCanonicalName Off
 | 
						||
  # ...
 | 
						||
</VirtualHost>
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Name-based virtual hosts for the best-matching set of  <code class="directive"><a href="#virtualhost"><virtualhost></a></code>s are processed
 | 
						||
    in the order they appear in the configuration.  The first matching <code class="directive"><a href="#servername">ServerName</a></code> or <code class="directive"><a href="#serveralias">ServerAlias</a></code> is used, with no different precedence for wildcards
 | 
						||
    (nor for ServerName vs. ServerAlias).  </p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The complete list of names in the <code class="directive">VirtualHost</code>
 | 
						||
    directive are treated just like a (non wildcard) 
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive">ServerAlias</code>.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#usecanonicalname">UseCanonicalName</a></code></li>
 | 
						||
<li><a href="../vhosts/">Apache HTTP Server Virtual Host documentation</a></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="ServerName" id="ServerName">ServerName</a> <a name="servername" id="servername">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Hostname and port that the server uses to identify
 | 
						||
itself</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>ServerName [<var>scheme</var>://]<var>fully-qualified-domain-name</var>[:<var>port</var>]</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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive">ServerName</code> directive sets the
 | 
						||
    request scheme, hostname and
 | 
						||
    port that the server uses to identify itself.  This is used when
 | 
						||
    creating redirection URLs.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Additionally, <code class="directive">ServerName</code> is used (possibly
 | 
						||
    in conjunction with <code class="directive">ServerAlias</code>) to uniquely
 | 
						||
    identify a virtual host, when using <a href="../vhosts/name-based.html">name-based virtual hosts</a>.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>For example, if the name of the
 | 
						||
    machine hosting the web server is <code>simple.example.com</code>,
 | 
						||
    but the machine also has the DNS alias <code>www.example.com</code>
 | 
						||
    and you wish the web server to be so identified, the following
 | 
						||
    directive should be used:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">ServerName www.example.com</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive">ServerName</code> directive
 | 
						||
    may appear anywhere within the definition of a server. However,
 | 
						||
    each appearance overrides the previous appearance (within that
 | 
						||
    server).</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>If no <code class="directive">ServerName</code> is specified, then the
 | 
						||
    server attempts to deduce the hostname by performing a reverse
 | 
						||
    lookup on the IP address. If no port is specified in the
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive">ServerName</code>, then the server will use the
 | 
						||
    port from the incoming request. For optimal reliability and
 | 
						||
    predictability, you should specify an explicit hostname and port
 | 
						||
    using the <code class="directive">ServerName</code> directive.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>If you are using <a href="../vhosts/name-based.html">name-based virtual hosts</a>,
 | 
						||
    the <code class="directive">ServerName</code> inside a
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><a href="#virtualhost"><VirtualHost></a></code>
 | 
						||
    section specifies what hostname must appear in the request's
 | 
						||
    <code>Host:</code> header to match this virtual host.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Sometimes, the server runs behind a device that processes SSL,
 | 
						||
    such as a reverse proxy, load balancer or SSL offload
 | 
						||
    appliance. When this is the case, specify the
 | 
						||
    <code>https://</code> scheme and the port number to which the
 | 
						||
    clients connect in the <code class="directive">ServerName</code> directive
 | 
						||
    to make sure that the server generates the correct
 | 
						||
    self-referential URLs.
 | 
						||
    </p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>See the description of the
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><a href="#usecanonicalname">UseCanonicalName</a></code> and
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><a href="#usecanonicalphysicalport">UseCanonicalPhysicalPort</a></code> directives for
 | 
						||
    settings which determine whether self-referential URLs (e.g., by the
 | 
						||
    <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_dir.html">mod_dir</a></code> module) will refer to the
 | 
						||
    specified port, or to the port number given in the client's request.
 | 
						||
    </p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="warning">
 | 
						||
    <p>Failure to set <code class="directive">ServerName</code> to a name that
 | 
						||
    your server can resolve to an IP address will result in a startup
 | 
						||
    warning. <code>httpd</code> will then use whatever hostname it can
 | 
						||
    determine, using the system's <code>hostname</code> command. This
 | 
						||
    will almost never be the hostname you actually want.</p>
 | 
						||
    <div class="example"><p><code>
 | 
						||
    httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using rocinante.local for ServerName
 | 
						||
    </code></p></div>
 | 
						||
    </div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><a href="../dns-caveats.html">Issues Regarding DNS and
 | 
						||
    Apache HTTP Server</a></li>
 | 
						||
<li><a href="../vhosts/">Apache HTTP Server virtual host
 | 
						||
    documentation</a></li>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#usecanonicalname">UseCanonicalName</a></code></li>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#usecanonicalphysicalport">UseCanonicalPhysicalPort</a></code></li>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#serveralias">ServerAlias</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="ServerPath" id="ServerPath">ServerPath</a> <a name="serverpath" id="serverpath">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Legacy URL pathname for a name-based virtual host that
 | 
						||
is accessed by an incompatible browser</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>ServerPath <var>URL-path</var></code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>virtual host</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive">ServerPath</code> directive sets the legacy
 | 
						||
    URL pathname for a host, for use with <a href="../vhosts/">name-based virtual hosts</a>.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><a href="../vhosts/">Apache HTTP Server Virtual Host documentation</a></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="ServerRoot" id="ServerRoot">ServerRoot</a> <a name="serverroot" id="serverroot">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Base directory for the server installation</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>ServerRoot <var>directory-path</var></code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>ServerRoot /usr/local/apache</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive">ServerRoot</code> directive sets the
 | 
						||
    directory in which the server lives. Typically it will contain the
 | 
						||
    subdirectories <code>conf/</code> and <code>logs/</code>. Relative
 | 
						||
    paths in other configuration directives (such as <code class="directive"><a href="#include">Include</a></code> or <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_so.html#loadmodule">LoadModule</a></code>, for example) are taken as
 | 
						||
    relative to this directory.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">ServerRoot "/home/httpd"</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The default location of <code class="directive">ServerRoot</code> may be
 | 
						||
    modified by using the <code>--prefix</code> argument to
 | 
						||
    <a href="../programs/configure.html"><code>configure</code></a>, and
 | 
						||
    most third-party distributions of the server have a different
 | 
						||
    default location from the one listed above.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><a href="../invoking.html">the <code>-d</code>
 | 
						||
    option to <code>httpd</code></a></li>
 | 
						||
<li><a href="../misc/security_tips.html#serverroot">the
 | 
						||
    security tips</a> for information on how to properly set
 | 
						||
    permissions on the <code class="directive">ServerRoot</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="ServerSignature" id="ServerSignature">ServerSignature</a> <a name="serversignature" id="serversignature">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Configures the footer on server-generated documents</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>ServerSignature On|Off|EMail</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>ServerSignature Off</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>All</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive">ServerSignature</code> directive allows the
 | 
						||
    configuration of a trailing footer line under server-generated
 | 
						||
    documents (error messages, <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_proxy.html">mod_proxy</a></code> ftp directory
 | 
						||
    listings, <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_info.html">mod_info</a></code> output, ...). The reason why you
 | 
						||
    would want to enable such a footer line is that in a chain of proxies,
 | 
						||
    the user often has no possibility to tell which of the chained servers
 | 
						||
    actually produced a returned error message.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code>Off</code>
 | 
						||
    setting, which is the default, suppresses the footer line (and is
 | 
						||
    therefore compatible with the behavior of Apache-1.2 and
 | 
						||
    below). The <code>On</code> setting simply adds a line with the
 | 
						||
    server version number and <code class="directive"><a href="#servername">ServerName</a></code> of the serving virtual host,
 | 
						||
    and the <code>EMail</code> setting additionally creates a
 | 
						||
    "mailto:" reference to the <code class="directive"><a href="#serveradmin">ServerAdmin</a></code> of the referenced
 | 
						||
    document.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>After version 2.0.44, the details of the server version number
 | 
						||
    presented are controlled by the <code class="directive"><a href="#servertokens">ServerTokens</a></code> directive.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#servertokens">ServerTokens</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="ServerTokens" id="ServerTokens">ServerTokens</a> <a name="servertokens" id="servertokens">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Configures the <code>Server</code> HTTP response
 | 
						||
header</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>ServerTokens Major|Minor|Min[imal]|Prod[uctOnly]|OS|Full</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>ServerTokens Full</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>This directive controls whether <code>Server</code> response
 | 
						||
    header field which is sent back to clients includes a
 | 
						||
    description of the generic OS-type of the server as well as
 | 
						||
    information about compiled-in modules.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <dl>
 | 
						||
      <dt><code>ServerTokens Full</code> (or not specified)</dt>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dd>Server sends (<em>e.g.</em>): <code>Server: Apache/2.4.2
 | 
						||
      (Unix) PHP/4.2.2 MyMod/1.2</code></dd>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dt><code>ServerTokens Prod[uctOnly]</code></dt>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dd>Server sends (<em>e.g.</em>): <code>Server:
 | 
						||
      Apache</code></dd>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dt><code>ServerTokens Major</code></dt>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dd>Server sends (<em>e.g.</em>): <code>Server:
 | 
						||
      Apache/2</code></dd>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dt><code>ServerTokens Minor</code></dt>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dd>Server sends (<em>e.g.</em>): <code>Server:
 | 
						||
      Apache/2.4</code></dd>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dt><code>ServerTokens Min[imal]</code></dt>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dd>Server sends (<em>e.g.</em>): <code>Server:
 | 
						||
      Apache/2.4.2</code></dd>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dt><code>ServerTokens OS</code></dt>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <dd>Server sends (<em>e.g.</em>): <code>Server: Apache/2.4.2
 | 
						||
      (Unix)</code></dd>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    </dl>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>This setting applies to the entire server, and cannot be
 | 
						||
    enabled or disabled on a virtualhost-by-virtualhost basis.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>After version 2.0.44, this directive also controls the
 | 
						||
    information presented by the <code class="directive"><a href="#serversignature">ServerSignature</a></code> directive.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="note">Setting <code class="directive">ServerTokens</code> to less than
 | 
						||
    <code>minimal</code> is not recommended because it makes it more
 | 
						||
    difficult to debug interoperational problems. Also note that
 | 
						||
    disabling the Server: header does nothing at all to make your
 | 
						||
    server more secure; the idea of "security through obscurity"
 | 
						||
    is a myth and leads to a false sense of safety.</div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#serversignature">ServerSignature</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="SetHandler" id="SetHandler">SetHandler</a> <a name="sethandler" id="sethandler">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Forces all matching files to be processed by a
 | 
						||
handler</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>SetHandler <var>handler-name</var>|None</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>FileInfo</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Moved into the core in Apache httpd 2.0</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>When placed into an <code>.htaccess</code> file or a
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><a href="#directory"><Directory></a></code> or
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><a href="#location"><Location></a></code>
 | 
						||
    section, this directive forces all matching files to be parsed
 | 
						||
    through the <a href="../handler.html">handler</a> given by
 | 
						||
    <var>handler-name</var>. For example, if you had a directory you
 | 
						||
    wanted to be parsed entirely as imagemap rule files, regardless
 | 
						||
    of extension, you might put the following into an
 | 
						||
    <code>.htaccess</code> file in that directory:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">SetHandler imap-file</pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Another example: if you wanted to have the server display a
 | 
						||
    status report whenever a URL of
 | 
						||
    <code>http://servername/status</code> was called, you might put
 | 
						||
    the following into <code>httpd.conf</code>:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<Location "/status">
 | 
						||
  SetHandler server-status
 | 
						||
</Location>
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>You could also use this directive to configure a particular
 | 
						||
    handler for files with a particular file extension. For example:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<FilesMatch \.php$>
 | 
						||
    SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
 | 
						||
</FilesMatch>
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>You can override an earlier defined <code class="directive">SetHandler</code>
 | 
						||
    directive by using the value <code>None</code>.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="note"><h3>Note</h3>
 | 
						||
    <p>Because <code class="directive">SetHandler</code> overrides default handlers,
 | 
						||
    normal behavior such as handling of URLs ending in a slash (/) as
 | 
						||
    directories or index files is suppressed.</p></div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_mime.html#addhandler">AddHandler</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="SetInputFilter" id="SetInputFilter">SetInputFilter</a> <a name="setinputfilter" id="setinputfilter">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Sets the filters that will process client requests and POST
 | 
						||
input</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>SetInputFilter <var>filter</var>[;<var>filter</var>...]</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>FileInfo</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive">SetInputFilter</code> directive sets the
 | 
						||
    filter or filters which will process client requests and POST
 | 
						||
    input when they are received by the server. This is in addition to
 | 
						||
    any filters defined elsewhere, including the
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_mime.html#addinputfilter">AddInputFilter</a></code>
 | 
						||
    directive.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>If more than one filter is specified, they must be separated
 | 
						||
    by semicolons in the order in which they should process the
 | 
						||
    content.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><a href="../filter.html">Filters</a> documentation</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="SetOutputFilter" id="SetOutputFilter">SetOutputFilter</a> <a name="setoutputfilter" id="setoutputfilter">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Sets the filters that will process responses from the
 | 
						||
server</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>SetOutputFilter <var>filter</var>[;<var>filter</var>...]</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>FileInfo</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive">SetOutputFilter</code> directive sets the filters
 | 
						||
    which will process responses from the server before they are
 | 
						||
    sent to the client. This is in addition to any filters defined
 | 
						||
    elsewhere, including the
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_mime.html#addoutputfilter">AddOutputFilter</a></code>
 | 
						||
    directive.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>For example, the following configuration will process all files
 | 
						||
    in the <code>/www/data/</code> directory for server-side
 | 
						||
    includes.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<Directory "/www/data/">
 | 
						||
  SetOutputFilter INCLUDES
 | 
						||
</Directory>
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>If more than one filter is specified, they must be separated
 | 
						||
    by semicolons in the order in which they should process the
 | 
						||
    content.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><a href="../filter.html">Filters</a> documentation</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="TimeOut" id="TimeOut">TimeOut</a> <a name="timeout" id="timeout">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Amount of time the server will wait for
 | 
						||
certain events before failing a request</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>TimeOut <var>seconds</var></code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>TimeOut 60</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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>The <code class="directive">TimeOut</code> directive defines the length
 | 
						||
    of time Apache httpd will wait for I/O in various circumstances:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <ol>
 | 
						||
      <li>When reading data from the client, the length of time to
 | 
						||
      wait for a TCP packet to arrive if the read buffer is
 | 
						||
      empty.</li>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <li>When writing data to the client, the length of time to wait
 | 
						||
      for an acknowledgement of a packet if the send buffer is
 | 
						||
      full.</li>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <li>In <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_cgi.html">mod_cgi</a></code>, the length of time to wait for
 | 
						||
      output from a CGI script.</li>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <li>In <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_ext_filter.html">mod_ext_filter</a></code>, the length of time to
 | 
						||
      wait for output from a filtering process.</li>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <li>In <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_proxy.html">mod_proxy</a></code>, the default timeout value if
 | 
						||
      <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_proxy.html#proxytimeout">ProxyTimeout</a></code> is not
 | 
						||
      configured.</li>
 | 
						||
    </ol>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
 | 
						||
<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="TraceEnable" id="TraceEnable">TraceEnable</a> <a name="traceenable" id="traceenable">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Determines the behavior on <code>TRACE</code> requests</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>TraceEnable <var>[on|off|extended]</var></code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>TraceEnable on</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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in Apache HTTP Server 1.3.34, 2.0.55 and later</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>This directive overrides the behavior of <code>TRACE</code> for both
 | 
						||
    the core server and <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_proxy.html">mod_proxy</a></code>.  The default
 | 
						||
    <code>TraceEnable on</code> permits <code>TRACE</code> requests per
 | 
						||
    RFC 2616, which disallows any request body to accompany the request.
 | 
						||
    <code>TraceEnable off</code> causes the core server and
 | 
						||
    <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_proxy.html">mod_proxy</a></code> to return a <code>405</code> (Method not
 | 
						||
    allowed) error to the client.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Finally, for testing and diagnostic purposes only, request
 | 
						||
    bodies may be allowed using the non-compliant <code>TraceEnable
 | 
						||
    extended</code> directive.  The core (as an origin server) will
 | 
						||
    restrict the request body to 64k (plus 8k for chunk headers if
 | 
						||
    <code>Transfer-Encoding: chunked</code> is used).  The core will
 | 
						||
    reflect the full headers and all chunk headers with the response
 | 
						||
    body.  As a proxy server, the request body is not restricted to 64k.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="note"><h3>Note</h3>
 | 
						||
    <p>Despite claims to the contrary, <code>TRACE</code> is not
 | 
						||
    a security vulnerability and there is no viable reason for
 | 
						||
    it to be disabled. Doing so necessarily makes your server
 | 
						||
    non-compliant.</p>
 | 
						||
    </div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
 | 
						||
<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="UnDefine" id="UnDefine">UnDefine</a> <a name="undefine" id="undefine">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Undefine the existence of a variable</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>UnDefine <var>parameter-name</var></code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>Undoes the effect of a <code class="directive"><a href="#define">Define</a></code> or
 | 
						||
    of passing a <code>-D</code> argument to <code class="program"><a href="../programs/httpd.html">httpd</a></code>.</p>
 | 
						||
    <p>This directive can be used to toggle the use of <code class="directive"><a href="#ifdefine"><IfDefine></a></code> sections without needing to alter
 | 
						||
    <code>-D</code> arguments in any startup scripts.</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="UseCanonicalName" id="UseCanonicalName">UseCanonicalName</a> <a name="usecanonicalname" id="usecanonicalname">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Configures how the server determines its own name and
 | 
						||
port</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>UseCanonicalName On|Off|DNS</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>UseCanonicalName Off</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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>In many situations Apache httpd must construct a <em>self-referential</em>
 | 
						||
    URL -- that is, a URL that refers back to the same server. With
 | 
						||
    <code>UseCanonicalName On</code> Apache httpd will use the hostname and port
 | 
						||
    specified in the <code class="directive"><a href="#servername">ServerName</a></code>
 | 
						||
    directive to construct the canonical name for the server. This name
 | 
						||
    is used in all self-referential URLs, and for the values of
 | 
						||
    <code>SERVER_NAME</code> and <code>SERVER_PORT</code> in CGIs.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>With <code>UseCanonicalName Off</code> Apache httpd will form
 | 
						||
    self-referential URLs using the hostname and port supplied by
 | 
						||
    the client if any are supplied (otherwise it will use the
 | 
						||
    canonical name, as defined above). These values are the same
 | 
						||
    that are used to implement <a href="../vhosts/name-based.html">name-based virtual hosts</a>,
 | 
						||
    and are available with the same clients. The CGI variables
 | 
						||
    <code>SERVER_NAME</code> and <code>SERVER_PORT</code> will be
 | 
						||
    constructed from the client supplied values as well.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>An example where this may be useful is on an intranet server
 | 
						||
    where you have users connecting to the machine using short
 | 
						||
    names such as <code>www</code>. You'll notice that if the users
 | 
						||
    type a shortname, and a URL which is a directory, such as
 | 
						||
    <code>http://www/splat</code>, <em>without the trailing
 | 
						||
    slash</em> then Apache httpd will redirect them to
 | 
						||
    <code>http://www.example.com/splat/</code>. If you have
 | 
						||
    authentication enabled, this will cause the user to have to
 | 
						||
    authenticate twice (once for <code>www</code> and once again
 | 
						||
    for <code>www.example.com</code> -- see <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/FAQ#Why_does_Apache_ask_for_my_password_twice_before_serving_a_file.3F">
 | 
						||
    the FAQ on this subject for more information</a>). But if
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive">UseCanonicalName</code> is set <code>Off</code>, then
 | 
						||
    Apache httpd will redirect to <code>http://www/splat/</code>.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>There is a third option, <code>UseCanonicalName DNS</code>,
 | 
						||
    which is intended for use with mass IP-based virtual hosting to
 | 
						||
    support ancient clients that do not provide a
 | 
						||
    <code>Host:</code> header. With this option Apache httpd does a
 | 
						||
    reverse DNS lookup on the server IP address that the client
 | 
						||
    connected to in order to work out self-referential URLs.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="warning"><h3>Warning</h3>
 | 
						||
    <p>If CGIs make assumptions about the values of <code>SERVER_NAME</code>
 | 
						||
    they may be broken by this option. The client is essentially free
 | 
						||
    to give whatever value they want as a hostname. But if the CGI is
 | 
						||
    only using <code>SERVER_NAME</code> to construct self-referential URLs
 | 
						||
    then it should be just fine.</p>
 | 
						||
    </div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#usecanonicalphysicalport">UseCanonicalPhysicalPort</a></code></li>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#servername">ServerName</a></code></li>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mpm_common.html#listen">Listen</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="UseCanonicalPhysicalPort" id="UseCanonicalPhysicalPort">UseCanonicalPhysicalPort</a> <a name="usecanonicalphysicalport" id="usecanonicalphysicalport">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Configures how the server determines its own port</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>UseCanonicalPhysicalPort On|Off</code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>UseCanonicalPhysicalPort Off</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>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p>In many situations Apache httpd must construct a <em>self-referential</em>
 | 
						||
    URL -- that is, a URL that refers back to the same server. With
 | 
						||
    <code>UseCanonicalPhysicalPort On</code> Apache httpd will, when
 | 
						||
    constructing the canonical port for the server to honor
 | 
						||
    the <code class="directive"><a href="#usecanonicalname">UseCanonicalName</a></code> directive,
 | 
						||
    provide the actual physical port number being used by this request
 | 
						||
    as a potential port. With <code>UseCanonicalPhysicalPort Off</code>
 | 
						||
    Apache httpd will not ever use the actual physical port number, instead
 | 
						||
    relying on all configured information to construct a valid port number.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="note"><h3>Note</h3>
 | 
						||
    <p>The ordering of the lookup when the physical port is used is as
 | 
						||
    follows:</p>
 | 
						||
     <dl>
 | 
						||
     <dt><code>UseCanonicalName On</code></dt>
 | 
						||
     <dd>
 | 
						||
     <ol>
 | 
						||
      <li>Port provided in <code class="directive"><a href="#servername">Servername</a></code></li>
 | 
						||
      <li>Physical port</li>
 | 
						||
      <li>Default port</li>
 | 
						||
     </ol>
 | 
						||
     </dd>
 | 
						||
     <dt><code>UseCanonicalName Off | DNS</code></dt>
 | 
						||
     <dd>
 | 
						||
     <ol>
 | 
						||
      <li>Parsed port from <code>Host:</code> header</li>
 | 
						||
      <li>Physical port</li>
 | 
						||
      <li>Port provided in <code class="directive"><a href="#servername">Servername</a></code></li>
 | 
						||
      <li>Default port</li>
 | 
						||
     </ol>
 | 
						||
     </dd>
 | 
						||
     </dl>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>With <code>UseCanonicalPhysicalPort Off</code>, the
 | 
						||
    physical ports are removed from the ordering.</p>
 | 
						||
    </div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<h3>See also</h3>
 | 
						||
<ul>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#usecanonicalname">UseCanonicalName</a></code></li>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="#servername">ServerName</a></code></li>
 | 
						||
<li><code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mpm_common.html#listen">Listen</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="VirtualHost" id="VirtualHost"><VirtualHost></a> <a name="virtualhost" id="virtualhost">Directive</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<table class="directive">
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Contains directives that apply only to a specific
 | 
						||
hostname or IP address</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code><VirtualHost
 | 
						||
    <var>addr</var>[:<var>port</var>] [<var>addr</var>[:<var>port</var>]]
 | 
						||
    ...> ... </VirtualHost></code></td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
    <p><code class="directive"><VirtualHost></code> and
 | 
						||
    <code></VirtualHost></code> are used to enclose a group of
 | 
						||
    directives that will apply only to a particular virtual host. Any
 | 
						||
    directive that is allowed in a virtual host context may be
 | 
						||
    used. When the server receives a request for a document on a
 | 
						||
    particular virtual host, it uses the configuration directives
 | 
						||
    enclosed in the <code class="directive"><VirtualHost></code>
 | 
						||
    section. <var>Addr</var> can be any of the following, optionally followed by
 | 
						||
    a colon and a port number (or *):</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <ul>
 | 
						||
      <li>The IP address of the virtual host;</li>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <li>A fully qualified domain name for the IP address of the
 | 
						||
      virtual host (not recommended);</li>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <li>The character <code>*</code>, which acts as a wildcard and matches
 | 
						||
      any IP address.</li>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
      <li>The string <code>_default_</code>, which is an alias for <code>*</code></li>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    </ul>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<VirtualHost 10.1.2.3:80>
 | 
						||
  ServerAdmin webmaster@host.example.com
 | 
						||
  DocumentRoot /www/docs/host.example.com
 | 
						||
  ServerName host.example.com
 | 
						||
  ErrorLog logs/host.example.com-error_log
 | 
						||
  TransferLog logs/host.example.com-access_log
 | 
						||
</VirtualHost>
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>IPv6 addresses must be specified in square brackets because
 | 
						||
    the optional port number could not be determined otherwise.  An
 | 
						||
    IPv6 example is shown below:</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
 | 
						||
<VirtualHost [2001:db8::a00:20ff:fea7:ccea]:80>
 | 
						||
  ServerAdmin webmaster@host.example.com
 | 
						||
  DocumentRoot /www/docs/host.example.com
 | 
						||
  ServerName host.example.com
 | 
						||
  ErrorLog logs/host.example.com-error_log
 | 
						||
  TransferLog logs/host.example.com-access_log
 | 
						||
</VirtualHost>
 | 
						||
    </pre>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>Each Virtual Host must correspond to a different IP address,
 | 
						||
    different port number or a different host name for the server,
 | 
						||
    in the former case the server machine must be configured to
 | 
						||
    accept IP packets for multiple addresses. (If the machine does
 | 
						||
    not have multiple network interfaces, then this can be
 | 
						||
    accomplished with the <code>ifconfig alias</code> command -- if
 | 
						||
    your OS supports it).</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <div class="note"><h3>Note</h3>
 | 
						||
    <p>The use of <code class="directive"><VirtualHost></code> does
 | 
						||
    <strong>not</strong> affect what addresses Apache httpd listens on. You
 | 
						||
    may need to ensure that Apache httpd is listening on the correct addresses
 | 
						||
    using <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mpm_common.html#listen">Listen</a></code>.</p>
 | 
						||
    </div>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>A <code class="directive"><a href="#servername">ServerName</a></code> should be
 | 
						||
    specified inside each <code class="directive"><VirtualHost></code> block. If it is absent, the
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><a href="#servername">ServerName</a></code> from the "main"
 | 
						||
    server configuration will be inherited.</p>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
    <p>When a request is received, the server first maps it to the best matching
 | 
						||
    <code class="directive"><VirtualHost></code> based on the local
 | 
						||
    IP address and port combination only.  Non-wildcards have a higher
 | 
						||
    precedence. If no match based on IP and port occurs at all, the
 | 
						||
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