mod_proxy - Apache HTTP Server

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# Apache Module mod_proxy

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Description: | HTTP/1.1 proxy/gateway server
Status: | Extension
Module Identifier: | proxy_module
Source File: | mod_proxy.c

### Summary

### Warning

Do not enable proxying with `ProxyRequests` until you have secured your server. Open proxy servers are dangerous both to your network and to the Internet at large.

This module implements a proxy/gateway for Apache. It implements proxying capability for `AJP13` (Apache JServe Protocol version 1.3), `FTP`, `CONNECT` (for SSL), `HTTP/0.9`, `HTTP/1.0`, and `HTTP/1.1`. The module can be configured to connect to other proxy modules for these and other protocols.

Apache's proxy features are divided into several modules in addition to `mod_proxy`: `mod_proxy_http`, `mod_proxy_ftp`, `mod_proxy_ajp`, `mod_proxy_balancer`, and `mod_proxy_connect`. Thus, if you want to use one or more of the particular proxy functions, load `mod_proxy` and the appropriate module(s) into the server (either statically at compile-time or dynamically via the `LoadModule` directive).

In addition, extended features are provided by other modules. Caching is provided by `mod_cache` and related modules. The ability to contact remote servers using the SSL/TLS protocol is provided by the `SSLProxy*` directives of `mod_ssl`. These additional modules will need to be loaded and configured to take advantage of these features.

### Directives

### Topics

- Forward Proxies and Reverse Proxies/Gateways
- Basic Examples
- Controlling access to your proxy
- Slow Startup
- Intranet Proxy
- Protocol Adjustments
- Request Bodies
- Reverse Proxy Request Headers

### See also

- `mod_cache`
- `mod_proxy_http`
- `mod_proxy_ftp`
- `mod_proxy_connect`
- `mod_proxy_balancer`
- `mod_ssl`

## Forward Proxies and Reverse Proxies/Gateways

Apache can be configured in both a forward and reverse proxy (also known as gateway) mode.

An ordinary forward proxy is an intermediate server that sits between the client and the origin server. In order to get content from the origin server, the client sends a request to the proxy naming the origin server as the target and the proxy then requests the content from the origin server and returns it to the client. The client must be specially configured to use the forward proxy to access other sites.

A typical usage of a forward proxy is to provide Internet access to internal clients that are otherwise restricted by a firewall. The forward proxy can also use caching (as provided by `mod_cache`) to reduce network usage.

The forward proxy is activated using the `ProxyRequests` directive. Because forward proxies allow clients to access arbitrary sites through your server and to hide their true origin, it is essential that you secure your server so that only authorized clients can access the proxy before activating a forward proxy.

A reverse proxy (or gateway), by contrast, appears to the client just like an ordinary web server. No special configuration on the client is necessary. The client makes ordinary requests for content in the name-space of the reverse proxy. The reverse proxy then decides where to send those requests, and returns the content as if it was itself the origin.

A typical usage of a reverse proxy is to provide Internet users access to a server that is behind a firewall. Reverse proxies can also be used to balance load among several back-end servers, or to provide caching for a slower back-end server. In addition, reverse proxies can be used simply to bring several servers into the same URL space.

A reverse proxy is activated using the `ProxyPass` directive or the `[P]` flag to the `RewriteRule` directive. It is not necessary to turn `ProxyRequests` on in order to configure a reverse proxy.

## Basic Examples

The examples below are only a very basic idea to help you get started. Please read the documentation on the individual directives.

In addition, if you wish to have caching enabled, consult the documentation from `mod_cache`.

### Forward Proxy

`ProxyRequests On
ProxyVia On
<Proxy *>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from internal.example.com
</Proxy>`

### Reverse Proxy

`ProxyRequests Off
<Proxy *>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Proxy>
ProxyPass /foo http://foo.example.com/bar
ProxyPassReverse /foo http://foo.example.com/bar`

## Controlling access to your proxy

You can control who can access your proxy via the `<Proxy>` control block as in the following example:

`<Proxy *>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 192.168.0
</Proxy>`

For more information on access control directives, see `mod_authz_host`.

Strictly limiting access is essential if you are using a forward proxy (using the `ProxyRequests` directive). Otherwise, your server can be used by any client to access arbitrary hosts while hiding his or her true identity. This is dangerous both for your network and for the Internet at large. When using a reverse proxy (using the `ProxyPass` directive with `ProxyRequests Off`), access control is less critical because clients can only contact the hosts that you have specifically configured.

## Slow Startup

If you're using the `ProxyBlock` directive, hostnames' IP addresses are looked up and cached during startup for later match test. This may take a few seconds (or more) depending on the speed with which the hostname lookups occur.

## Intranet Proxy

An Apache proxy server situated in an intranet needs to forward external requests through the company's firewall (for this, configure the `ProxyRemote` directive to forward the respective scheme to the firewall proxy). However, when it has to access resources within the intranet, it can bypass the firewall when accessing hosts. The `NoProxy` directive is useful for specifying which hosts belong to the intranet and should be accessed directly.

Users within an intranet tend to omit the local domain name from their WWW requests, thus requesting "http://somehost/" instead of `http://somehost.example.com/`. Some commercial proxy servers let them get away with this and simply serve the request, implying a configured local domain. When the `ProxyDomain` directive is used and the server is configured for proxy service, Apache can return a redirect response and send the client to the correct, fully qualified, server address. This is the preferred method since the user's bookmark files will then contain fully qualified hosts.

## Protocol Adjustments

For circumstances where `mod_proxy` is sending requests to an origin server that doesn't properly implement keepalives or HTTP/1.1, there are two environment variables that can force the request to use HTTP/1.0 with no keepalive. These are set via the `SetEnv` directive.

These are the `force-proxy-request-1.0` and `proxy-nokeepalive` notes.

`<Location /buggyappserver/>
ProxyPass http://buggyappserver:7001/foo/
SetEnv force-proxy-request-1.0 1
SetEnv proxy-nokeepalive 1
</Location>`

## Request Bodies

Some request methods such as POST include a request body. The HTTP protocol requires that requests which include a body either use chunked transfer encoding or send a `Content-Length` request header. When passing these requests on to the origin server, `mod_proxy_http` will always attempt to send the `Content-Length`. But if the body is large and the original request used chunked encoding, then chunked encoding may also be used in the upstream request. You can control this selection using environment variables. Setting `proxy-sendcl` ensures maximum compatibility with upstream servers by always sending the `Content-Length`, while setting `proxy-sendchunked` minimizes resource usage by using chunked encoding.

## Reverse Proxy Request Headers

When acting in a reverse-proxy mode (using the `ProxyPass` directive, for example), `mod_proxy_http` adds several request headers in order to pass information to the origin server. These headers are:

`X-Forwarded-For`
  The IP address of the client.
`X-Forwarded-Host`
  The original host requested by the client in the `Host` HTTP request header.
`X-Forwarded-Server`
  The hostname of the proxy server.

Be careful when using these headers on the origin server, since they will contain more than one (comma-separated) value if the original request already contained one of these headers. For example, you can use `%{X-Forwarded-For}i` in the log format string of the origin server to log the original clients IP address, but you may get more than one address if the request passes through several proxies.

See also the `ProxyPreserveHost` and `ProxyVia` directives, which control other request headers.

## AllowCONNECT Directive

Description: | Ports that are allowed to `CONNECT` through the proxy
Syntax: | `AllowCONNECT port [port] ...`
Default: | `AllowCONNECT 443 563`
Context: | server config, virtual host
Status: | Extension
Module: | mod_proxy

The `AllowCONNECT` directive specifies a list of port numbers to which the proxy `CONNECT` method may connect. Today's browsers use this method when a `https` connection is requested and proxy tunneling over HTTP is in effect.

By default, only the default https port (`443`) and the default snews port (`563`) are enabled. Use the `AllowCONNECT` directive to override this default and allow connections to the listed ports only.

Note that you'll need to have `mod_proxy_connect` present in the server in order to get the support for the `CONNECT` at all.

## BalancerMember Directive

Description: | Add a member to a load balancing group
Syntax: | `BalancerMember url [key=value [key=value ...]]`
Context: | directory
Status: | Extension
Module: | mod_proxy
Compatibility: | BalancerMember is only available in Apache 2.2 and later.

This directive adds a member to a load balancing group. It must be used within a `<Proxy balancer://...>` container directive, and can take any of the parameters available to `ProxyPass` directives.

## NoProxy Directive

Description: | Hosts, domains, or networks that will be connected to directly
Syntax: | `NoProxy host [host] ...`
Context: | server config, virtual host
Status: | Extension
Module: | mod_proxy

This directive is only useful for Apache proxy servers within intranets. The `NoProxy` directive specifies a list of subnets, IP addresses, hosts and/or domains, separated by spaces. A request to a host which matches one or more of these is always served directly, without forwarding to the configured `ProxyRemote` proxy server(s).

### Example

`ProxyRemote * http://firewall.example.com:81
NoProxy .example.com 192.168.112.0/21`

The host arguments to the `NoProxy` directive are one of the following type list:

Domain

  A Domain is a partially qualified DNS domain name, preceded by a period. It represents a list of hosts which logically belong to the same DNS domain or zone (i.e., the suffixes of the hostnames are all ending in Domain).

  ### Examples

  `.com .apache.org.`

  To distinguish Domains from Hostnames (both syntactically and semantically; a DNS domain can have a DNS A record, too!), Domains are always written with a leading period.

  ### Note

  Domain name comparisons are done without regard to the case, and Domains are always assumed to be anchored in the root of the DNS tree, therefore two domains `.ExAmple.com` and `.example.com.` (note the trailing period) are considered equal. Since a domain comparison does not involve a DNS lookup, it is much more efficient than subnet comparison.

SubNet

  A SubNet is a partially qualified internet address in numeric (dotted quad) form, optionally followed by a slash and the netmask, specified as the number of significant bits in the SubNet. It is used to represent a subnet of hosts which can be reached over a common network interface. In the absence of the explicit net mask it is assumed that omitted (or zero valued) trailing digits specify the mask. (In this case, the netmask can only be multiples of 8 bits wide.) Examples:

  `192.168` or `192.168.0.0`
    the subnet 192.168.0.0 with an implied netmask of 16 valid bits (sometimes used in the netmask form `255.255.0.0`)
  `192.168.112.0/21`
    the subnet `192.168.112.0/21` with a netmask of 21 valid bits (also used in the form `255.255.248.0`)

  As a degenerate case, a SubNet with 32 valid bits is the equivalent to an IPAddr, while a SubNet with zero valid bits (e.g., 0.0.0.0/0) is the same as the constant _Default_, matching any IP address.

IPAddr

  A IPAddr represents a fully qualified internet address in numeric (dotted quad) form. Usually, this address represents a host, but there need not necessarily be a DNS domain name connected with the address.

  ### Example

  `192.168.123.7`

  ### Note

  An IPAddr does not need to be resolved by the DNS system, so it can result in more effective apache performance.

Hostname

  A Hostname is a fully qualified DNS domain name which can be resolved to one or more IPAddrs via the DNS domain name service. It represents a logical host (in contrast to Domains, see above) and must be resolvable to at least one IPAddr (or often to a list of hosts with different IPAddrs).

  ### Examples

  `prep.ai.example.com
  www.apache.org`

  ### Note

  In many situations, it is more effective to specify an IPAddr in place of a Hostname since a DNS lookup can be avoided. Name resolution in Apache can take a remarkable deal of time when the connection to the name server uses a slow PPP link.

  Hostname comparisons are done without regard to the case, and Hostnames are always assumed to be anchored in the root of the DNS tree, therefore two hosts `WWW.ExAmple.com` and `www.example.com.` (note the trailing period) are considered equal.

### See also

- DNS Issues

## <Proxy> Directive

Description: | Container for directives applied to proxied resources
Syntax: | `<Proxy wildcard-url> ...</Proxy>`
Context: | server config, virtual host
Status: | Extension
Module: | mod_proxy

Directives placed in `<Proxy>` sections apply only to matching proxied content. Shell-style wildcards are allowed.

For example, the following will allow only hosts in `yournetwork.example.com` to access content via your proxy server:

`<Proxy *>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from yournetwork.example.com
</Proxy>`

The following example will process all files in the `foo` directory of `example.com` through the `INCLUDES` filter when they are sent through the proxy server:

`<Proxy http://example.com/foo/*>
SetOutputFilter INCLUDES
</Proxy>`

## ProxyBadHeader Directive

Description: | Determines how to handle bad header lines in a response
Syntax: | `ProxyBadHeader IsError|Ignore|StartBody`
Default: | `ProxyBadHeader IsError`
Context: | server config, virtual host
Status: | Extension
Module: | mod_proxy
Compatibility: | Available in Apache 2.0.44 and later

The `ProxyBadHeader` directive determines the behaviour of `mod_proxy` if it receives syntactically invalid header lines (i.e. containing no colon). The following arguments are possible:

`IsError`
  Abort the request and end up with a 502 (Bad Gateway) response. This is the default behaviour.
`Ignore`
  Treat bad header lines as if they weren't sent.
`StartBody`
  When receiving the first bad header line, finish reading the headers and treat the remainder as body. This helps to work around buggy backend servers which forget to insert an empty line between the headers and the body.

## ProxyBlock Directive

Description: | Words, hosts, or domains that are banned from being proxied
Syntax: | `ProxyBlock *|word|host|domain [word|host|domain] ...`
Context: | server config, virtual host
Status: | Extension
Module: | mod_proxy

The `ProxyBlock` directive specifies a list of words, hosts and/or domains, separated by spaces. HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP document requests to sites whose names contain matched words, hosts or domains are blocked by the proxy server. The proxy module will also attempt to determine IP addresses of list items which may be hostnames during startup, and cache them for match test as well. That may slow down the startup time of the server.

### Example

`ProxyBlock joes-garage.com some-host.co.uk rocky.wotsamattau.edu`

`rocky.wotsamattau.edu` would also be matched if referenced by IP address.

Note that `wotsamattau` would also be sufficient to match `wotsamattau.edu`.

Note also that

`ProxyBlock *`

blocks connections to all sites.

## ProxyDomain Directive

Description: | Default domain name for proxied requests
Syntax: | `ProxyDomain Domain`
Context: | server config, virtual host
Status: | Extension
Module: | mod_proxy

This directive is only useful for Apache proxy servers within intranets. The `ProxyDomain` directive specifies the default domain which the apache proxy server will belong to. If a request to a host without a domain name is encountered, a redirection response to the same host with the configured Domain appended will be generated.

### Example

`ProxyRemote * http://firewall.example.com:81
NoProxy .example.com 192.168.112.0/21
ProxyDomain .example.com`

## ProxyErrorOverride Directive

Description: | Override error pages for proxied content
Syntax: | `ProxyErrorOverride On|Off`
Default: | `ProxyErrorOverride Off`
Context: | server config, virtual host
Status: | Extension
Module: | mod_proxy
Compatibility: | Available in version 2.0 and later

This directive is useful for reverse-proxy setups, where you want to have a common look and feel on the error pages seen by the end user. This also allows for included files (via `mod_include`'s SSI) to get the error code and act accordingly (default behavior would display the error page of the proxied server, turning this on shows the SSI Error message).

This directive does not affect the processing of informational (1xx), normal success (2xx), or redirect (3xx) responses.

## ProxyFtpDirCharset Directive

Description: | Define the character set for proxied FTP listings
Syntax: | `ProxyFtpDirCharset character set`
Default: | `ProxyFtpDirCharset ISO-8859-1`
Context: | server config, virtual host, directory
Status: | Extension
Module: | mod_proxy
Compatibility: | Available in Apache 2.2.7 and later

The `ProxyFtpDirCharset` directive defines the character set to be set for FTP directory listings in HTML generated by `mod_proxy_ftp`.

## ProxyIOBufferSize Directive

Description: | Determine size of internal data throughput buffer
Syntax: | `ProxyIOBufferSize bytes`
Default: | `ProxyIOBufferSize 8192`
Context: | server config, virtual host
Status: | Extension
Module: | mod_proxy

The `ProxyIOBufferSize` directive adjusts the size of the internal buffer, which is used as a scratchpad for the data between input and output. The size must be less or equal `8192`.

In almost every case there's no reason to change that value.

## <ProxyMatch> Directive

Description: | Container for directives applied to regular-expression-matched proxied resources
Syntax: | `<ProxyMatch regex> ...</ProxyMatch>`
Context: | server config, virtual host
Status: | Extension
Module: | mod_proxy

The `<ProxyMatch>` directive is identical to the `<Proxy>` directive, except it matches URLs using regular expressions.

## ProxyMaxForwards Directive

Description: | Maximium number of proxies that a request can be forwarded through
Syntax: | `ProxyMaxForwards number`
Default: | `ProxyMaxForwards -1`
Context: | server config, virtual host
Status: | Extension
Module: | mod_proxy
Compatibility: | Available in Apache 2.0 and later; default behaviour changed in 2.2.7

The `ProxyMaxForwards` directive specifies the maximum number of proxies through which a request may pass, if there's no `Max-Forwards` header supplied with the request. This may be set to prevent infinite proxy loops, or a DoS attack.

### Example

`ProxyMaxForwards 15`

Note that setting `ProxyMaxForwards` is a violation of the HTTP/1.1 protocol (RFC2616), which forbids a Proxy setting `Max-Forwards` if the Client didn't set it. Earlier Apache versions would always set it. A negative `ProxyMaxForwards` value, including the default -1, gives you protocol-compliant behaviour, but may leave you open to loops.

## ProxyPass Directive

Description: | Maps remote servers into the local server URL-space
Syntax: | `ProxyPass [path] !|url [key=value key=value ...]] [nocanon] [interpolate]`
Context: | server config, virtual host, directory
Status: | Extension
Module: | mod_proxy

This directive allows remote servers to be mapped into the space of the local server; the local server does not act as a proxy in the conventional sense, but appears to be a mirror of the remote server. The local server is often called a reverse proxy or gateway. The path is the name of a local virtual path; url is a partial URL for the remote server and cannot include a query string.

The `ProxyRequests` directive should usually be set off when using `ProxyPass`.

Suppose the local server has address `http://example.com/`; then

`ProxyPass /mirror/foo/ http://backend.example.com/`

will cause a local request for `http://example.com/mirror/foo/bar` to be internally converted into a proxy request to `http://backend.example.com/bar`.

If the first argument ends with a trailing /, the second argument should also end with a trailing / and vice versa. Otherwise the resulting requests to the backend may miss some needed slashes and do not deliver the expected results.

The `!` directive is useful in situations where you don't want to reverse-proxy a subdirectory, e.g.

`ProxyPass /mirror/foo/i !
ProxyPass /mirror/foo http://backend.example.com`

will proxy all requests to `/mirror/foo` to `backend.example.com` except requests made to `/mirror/foo/i`.

### Note

Order is important: exclusions must come before the general `ProxyPass` directive.

As of Apache 2.1, the ability to use pooled connections to a backend server is available. Using the `key=value` parameters it is possible to tune this connection pooling. The default for a `Hard Maximum` for the number of connections is the number of threads per process in the active MPM. In the Prefork MPM, this is always 1, while with the Worker MPM it is controlled by the `ThreadsPerChild`.

Setting `min` will determine how many connections will always be open to the backend server. Upto the Soft Maximum or `smax` number of connections will be created on demand. Any connections above `smax` are subject to a time to live or `ttl`. Apache will never create more than the Hard Maximum or `max` connections to the backend server.

`ProxyPass /example http://backend.example.com smax=5 max=20 ttl=120 retry=300`

Parameter | Default | Description
--- | --- | ---
min | 0 | Minimum number of connections that will always be open to the backend server.
max | 1...n | Hard Maximum number of connections that will be allowed to the backend server. The default for a Hard Maximum for the number of connections is the number of threads per process in the active MPM. In the Prefork MPM, this is always 1, while with the Worker MPM it is controlled by the `ThreadsPerChild`. Apache will never create more than the Hard Maximum connections to the backend server.
smax | max | Upto the Soft Maximum number of connections will be created on demand. Any connections above `smax` are subject to a time to live or `ttl`.
acquire | - | If set this will be the maximum time to wait for a free connection in the connection pool, in milliseconds. If there are no free connections in the pool the Apache will return `SERVER_BUSY` status to the client.
connectiontimeout | timeout | Connect timeout in seconds. The number of seconds Apache waits for the creation of a connection to the backend to complete. By adding a postfix of ms the timeout can be also set in milliseconds.
disablereuse | Off | This parameter should be used when you want to force mod_proxy to immediately close a connection to the backend after being used, and thus, disable its persistent connection and pool for that backend. This helps in various situations where a firewall between Apache and the backend server (regardless of protocol) tends to silently drop connections or when backends themselves may be under round- robin DNS. To disable connection pooling reuse, set this property value to `On`.
flushpackets | off | Determines whether the proxy module will auto-flush the output brigade after each "chunk" of data. 'off' means that it will flush only when needed, 'on' means after each chunk is sent and 'auto' means poll/wait for a period of time and flush if no input has been received for 'flushwait' milliseconds. Currently this is in effect only for AJP.
flushwait | 10 | The time to wait for additional input, in milliseconds, before flushing the output brigade if 'flushpackets' is 'auto'.
keepalive | Off | This parameter should be used when you have a firewall between your Apache and the backend server, who tend to drop inactive connections. This flag will tell the Operating System to send `KEEP_ALIVE` messages on inactive connections (interval depends on global OS settings, generally 120ms), and thus prevent the firewall to drop the connection. To enable keepalive set this property value to `On`.
lbset | 0 | Sets the load balancer cluster set that the worker is a member of. The load balancer will try all members of a lower numbered lbset before trying higher numbered ones.
ping | 0 | Ping property tells webserver to send a `CPING` request on ajp13 connection before forwarding a request. The parameter is the delay in seconds to wait for the `CPONG` reply. This features has been added to avoid problem with hung and busy Tomcat's and require ajp13 ping/pong support which has been implemented on Tomcat 3.3.2+, 4.1.28+ and 5.0.13+. This will increase the network traffic during the normal operation which could be an issue, but it will lower the traffic in case some of the cluster nodes are down or busy. Currently this has an effect only for AJP. By adding a postfix of ms the delay can be also set in milliseconds.
loadfactor | 1 | Worker load factor. Used with BalancerMember. It is a number between 1 and 100 and defines the normalized weighted load applied to the worker.
redirect | - | Redirection Route of the worker. This value is usually set dynamically to enable safe removal of the node from the cluster. If set all requests without session id will be redirected to the BalancerMember that has route parametar equal as this value.
retry | 60 | Connection pool worker retry timeout in seconds. If the connection pool worker to the backend server is in the error state, Apache will not forward any requests to that server until the timeout expires. This enables to shut down the backend server for maintenance, and bring it back online later. A value of 0 means always retry workers in an error state with no timeout.
route | - | Route of the worker when used inside load balancer. The route is a value appended to session id.
status | - | Single letter value defining the initial status of this worker: 'D' is disabled, 'S' is stopped, 'I' is ignore-errors, 'H' is hot-standby and 'E' is in an error state. Status can be set (which is the default) by prepending with '+' or cleared by prepending with '-'. Thus, a setting of 'S-E' sets this worker to Stopped and clears the in-error flag.
timeout | `ProxyTimeout` | Connection timeout in seconds. The number of seconds Apache waits for data sent by / to the backend.
ttl | - | Time To Live for the inactive connections above the `smax` connections in seconds. Apache will close all connections that has not been used inside that time period.

If the Proxy directive scheme starts with the `balancer://` then a virtual worker that does not really communicate with the backend server will be created. Instead it is responsible for the management of several "real" workers. In that case the special set of parameters can be add to this virtual worker. See `mod_proxy_balancer` for more information about how the balancer works.

Parameter | Default | Description
--- | --- | ---
lbmethod | byrequests | Balancer load-balance method. Select the load-balancing scheduler method to use. Either `byrequests`, to perform weighted request counting, `bytraffic`, to perform weighted traffic byte count balancing, or `bybusyness`, to perform pending request balancing. Default is `byrequests`.
maxattempts | 1 | Maximum number of failover attempts before giving up.
nofailover | Off | If set to `On` the session will break if the worker is in error state or disabled. Set this value to On if backend servers do not support session replication.
stickysession | - | Balancer sticky session name. The value is usually set to something like `JSESSIONID` or `PHPSESSIONID`, and it depends on the backend application server that support sessions. If the backend application server uses different name for cookies and url encoded id (like servlet containers) use | to to separate them. The first part is for the cookie the second for the path.
scolonpathdelim | Off | If set to `On` the semi-colon character ';' will be used as an additional sticky session path deliminator/separator. This is mainly used to emulate mod_jk's behavior when dealing with paths such as `JSESSIONID=6736bcf34;foo=aabfa`
timeout | 0 | Balancer timeout in seconds. If set this will be the maximum time to wait for a free worker. Default is not to wait.

A sample balancer setup

`ProxyPass /special-area http://special.example.com/ smax=5 max=10
ProxyPass / balancer://mycluster/ stickysession=JSESSIONID|jsessionid nofailover=On
<Proxy balancer://mycluster>
BalancerMember http://1.2.3.4:8009
BalancerMember http://1.2.3.5:8009 smax=10
# Less powerful server, don't send as many requests there
BalancerMember http://1.2.3.6:8009 smax=1 loadfactor=20
</Proxy>`

Setting up a hot-standby, that will only be used if no other members are available

`ProxyPass / balancer://hotcluster/
<Proxy balancer://hotcluster>
BalancerMember http://1.2.3.4:8009 loadfactor=1
BalancerMember http://1.2.3.5:8009 loadfactor=2
# The below is the hot standby
BalancerMember http://1.2.3.6:8009 status=+H
ProxySet lbmethod=bytraffic </Proxy>`

Normally, mod_proxy will canonicalise ProxyPassed URLs. But this may be incompatible with some backends, particularly those that make use of PATH_INFO. The optional nocanon keyword suppresses this, and passes the URL path "raw" to the backend. Note that may affect the security of your backend, as it removes the normal limited protection against URL-based attacks provided by the proxy.

The optional interpolate keyword (available in httpd 2.2.9 and later), in combination with `ProxyPassInterpolateEnv` causes the ProxyPass to interpolate environment variables, using the syntax ${VARNAME}. Note that many of the standard CGI-derived environment variables will not exist when this interpolation happens, so you may still have to resort to `mod_rewrite` for complex rules.

When used inside a `<Location>` section, the first argument is omitted and the local directory is obtained from the `<Location>`.

If you require a more flexible reverse-proxy configuration, see the `RewriteRule` directive with the `[P]` flag.

## ProxyPassInterpolateEnv Directive

Description: | Enable Environment Variable interpolation in Reverse Proxy configurations
Syntax: | `ProxyPassInterpolateEnv On|Off`
Default: | `ProxyPassInterpolateEnv Off`
Context: | server config, virtual host, directory
Status: | Extension
Module: | mod_proxy
Compatibility: | Available in httpd 2.2.9 and later

This directive, together with the interpolate argument to `ProxyPass`, `ProxyPassReverse`, `ProxyPassReverseCookieDomain` and `ProxyPassReverseCookiePath` enables reverse proxies to be dynamically configured using environment variables, which may be set by another module such as `mod_rewrite`. It affects the `ProxyPass`, `ProxyPassReverse`, `ProxyPassReverseCookieDomain`, and `ProxyPassReverseCookiePath` directives, and causes them to substitute the value of an environment variable `varname` for the string `${varname}` in configuration directives.

Keep this turned off (for server performance) unless you need it!

## ProxyPassMatch Directive

Description: | Maps remote servers into the local server URL-space using regular expressions
Syntax: | `ProxyPassMatch [regex] !|url [key=value [key=value ...]]`
Context: | server config, virtual host, directory
Status: | Extension
Module: | mod_proxy
Compatibility: | available in Apache 2.2.5 and later

This directive is equivalent to `ProxyPass`, but makes use of regular expressions, instead of simple prefix matching. The supplied regular expression is matched against the url, and if it matches, the server will substitute any parenthesized matches into the given string and use it as a new url.

Suppose the local server has address `http://example.com/`; then

`ProxyPassMatch ^(/.*\.gif)$ http://backend.example.com$1`

will cause a local request for `http://example.com/foo/bar.gif` to be internally converted into a proxy request to `http://backend.example.com/foo/bar.gif`.

The `!` directive is useful in situations where you don't want to reverse-proxy a subdirectory.

## ProxyPassReverse Directive

Description: | Adjusts the URL in HTTP response headers sent from a reverse proxied server
Syntax: | `ProxyPassReverse [path] url [interpolate]`
Context: | server config, virtual host, directory
Status: | Extension
Module: | mod_proxy

This directive lets Apache adjust the URL in the `Location`, `Content-Location` and `URI` headers on HTTP redirect responses. This is essential when Apache is used as a reverse proxy (or gateway) to avoid by-passing the reverse proxy because of HTTP redirects on the backend servers which stay behind the reverse proxy.

Only the HTTP response headers specifically mentioned above will be rewritten. Apache will not rewrite other response headers, nor will it rewrite URL references inside HTML pages. This means that if the proxied content contains absolute URL references, they will by-pass the proxy. A third-party module that will look inside the HTML and rewrite URL references is Nick Kew's mod_proxy_html.

path is the name of a local virtual path. url is a partial URL for the remote server - the same way they are used for the `ProxyPass` directive.

For example, suppose the local server has address `http://example.com/`; then

`ProxyPass /mirror/foo/ http://backend.example.com/
ProxyPassReverse /mirror/foo/ http://backend.example.com/
ProxyPassReverseCookieDomain backend.example.com public.example.com
ProxyPassReverseCookiePath / /mirror/foo/`

will not only cause a local request for the `http://example.com/mirror/foo/bar` to be internally converted into a proxy request to `http://backend.example.com/bar` (the functionality `ProxyPass` provides here). It also takes care of redirects the server `backend.example.com` sends: when `http://backend.example.com/bar` is redirected by him to `http://backend.example.com/quux` Apache adjusts this to `http://example.com/mirror/foo/quux` before forwarding the HTTP redirect response to the client. Note that the hostname used for constructing the URL is chosen in respect to the setting of the `UseCanonicalName` directive.

Note that this `ProxyPassReverse` directive can also be used in conjunction with the proxy pass-through feature (`RewriteRule ... [P]`) from `mod_rewrite` because it doesn't depend on a corresponding `ProxyPass` directive.

The optional interpolate keyword (available in httpd 2.2.9 and later), used together with `ProxyPassInterpolateEnv`, enables interpolation of environment variables specified using the format ${VARNAME}.

When used inside a `<Location>` section, the first argument is omitted and the local directory is obtained from the `<Location>`.

## ProxyPassReverseCookieDomain Directive

Description: | Adjusts the Domain string in Set-Cookie headers from a reverse- proxied server
Syntax: | `ProxyPassReverseCookieDomain internal-domain public-domain [interpolate]`
Context: | server config, virtual host, directory
Status: | Extension
Module: | mod_proxy

Usage is basically similar to `ProxyPassReverse`, but instead of rewriting headers that are a URL, this rewrites the `domain` string in `Set-Cookie` headers.

## ProxyPassReverseCookiePath Directive

Description: | Adjusts the Path string in Set-Cookie headers from a reverse- proxied server
Syntax: | `ProxyPassReverseCookiePath internal-path public-path [interpolate]`
Context: | server config, virtual host, directory
Status: | Extension
Module: | mod_proxy

Usage is basically similar to `ProxyPassReverse`, but instead of rewriting headers that are a URL, this rewrites the `path` string in `Set-Cookie` headers.

## ProxyPreserveHost Directive

Description: | Use incoming Host HTTP request header for proxy request
Syntax: | `ProxyPreserveHost On|Off`
Default: | `ProxyPreserveHost Off`
Context: | server config, virtual host
Status: | Extension
Module: | mod_proxy
Compatibility: | Available in Apache 2.0.31 and later.

When enabled, this option will pass the Host: line from the incoming request to the proxied host, instead of the hostname specified in the `ProxyPass` line.

This option should normally be turned `Off`. It is mostly useful in special configurations like proxied mass name-based virtual hosting, where the original Host header needs to be evaluated by the backend server.

## ProxyReceiveBufferSize Directive

Description: | Network buffer size for proxied HTTP and FTP connections
Syntax: | `ProxyReceiveBufferSize bytes`
Default: | `ProxyReceiveBufferSize 0`
Context: | server config, virtual host
Status: | Extension
Module: | mod_proxy

The `ProxyReceiveBufferSize` directive specifies an explicit (TCP/IP) network buffer size for proxied HTTP and FTP connections, for increased throughput. It has to be greater than `512` or set to `0` to indicate that the system's default buffer size should be used.

### Example

`ProxyReceiveBufferSize 2048`

## ProxyRemote Directive

Description: | Remote proxy used to handle certain requests
Syntax: | `ProxyRemote match remote-server`
Context: | server config, virtual host
Status: | Extension
Module: | mod_proxy

This defines remote proxies to this proxy. match is either the name of a URL-scheme that the remote server supports, or a partial URL for which the remote server should be used, or `*` to indicate the server should be contacted for all requests. remote-server is a partial URL for the remote server. Syntax:

`remote-server = scheme://hostname[:port]`

scheme is effectively the protocol that should be used to communicate with the remote server; only `http` is supported by this module.

### Example

`ProxyRemote http://goodguys.example.com/ http://mirrorguys.example.com:8000
ProxyRemote * http://cleverproxy.localdomain
ProxyRemote ftp http://ftpproxy.mydomain:8080`

In the last example, the proxy will forward FTP requests, encapsulated as yet another HTTP proxy request, to another proxy which can handle them.

This option also supports reverse proxy configuration - a backend webserver can be embedded within a virtualhost URL space even if that server is hidden by another forward proxy.

## ProxyRemoteMatch Directive

Description: | Remote proxy used to handle requests matched by regular expressions
Syntax: | `ProxyRemoteMatch regex remote-server`
Context: | server config, virtual host
Status: | Extension
Module: | mod_proxy

The `ProxyRemoteMatch` is identical to the `ProxyRemote` directive, except the first argument is a regular expression match against the requested URL.

## ProxyRequests Directive

Description: | Enables forward (standard) proxy requests
Syntax: | `ProxyRequests On|Off`
Default: | `ProxyRequests Off`
Context: | server config, virtual host
Status: | Extension
Module: | mod_proxy

This allows or prevents Apache from functioning as a forward proxy server. (Setting ProxyRequests to `Off` does not disable use of the `ProxyPass` directive.)

In a typical reverse proxy or gateway configuration, this option should be set to `Off`.

In order to get the functionality of proxying HTTP or FTP sites, you need also `mod_proxy_http` or `mod_proxy_ftp` (or both) present in the server.

### Warning

Do not enable proxying with `ProxyRequests` until you have secured your server. Open proxy servers are dangerous both to your network and to the Internet at large.

### See also

- Forward and Reverse Proxies/Gateways

## ProxySet Directive

Description: | Set various Proxy balancer or member parameters
Syntax: | `ProxySet url key=value [key=value ...]`
Context: | directory
Status: | Extension
Module: | mod_proxy
Compatibility: | ProxySet is only available in Apache 2.2 and later.

This directive is used as an alternate method of setting any of the parameters available to Proxy balancers and workers normally done via the `ProxyPass` directive. If used within a `<Proxy balancer url|worker url>` container directive, the url argument is not required. As a side effect the respective balancer or worker gets created. This can be useful when doing reverse proxying via a `RewriteRule` instead of a `ProxyPass` directive.

`<Proxy balancer://hotcluster>
BalancerMember http://www2.example.com:8009 loadfactor=1
BalancerMember http://www3.example.com:8009 loadfactor=2
ProxySet lbmethod=bytraffic
</Proxy>`

`<Proxy http://backend>
ProxySet keepalive=On
</Proxy>`

`ProxySet balancer://foo lbmethod=bytraffic timeout=15`

`ProxySet ajp://backend:7001 timeout=15`

### Warning

Keep in mind that the same parameter key can have a different meaning depending whether it is applied to a balancer or a worker as shown by the two examples above regarding timeout.

## ProxyStatus Directive

Description: | Show Proxy LoadBalancer status in mod_status
Syntax: | `ProxyStatus Off|On|Full`
Default: | `ProxyStatus Off`
Context: | server config, virtual host
Status: | Extension
Module: | mod_proxy
Compatibility: | Available in version 2.2 and later

This directive determines whether or not proxy loadbalancer status data is displayed via the `mod_status` server-status page.

### Note

Full is synonymous with On

## ProxyTimeout Directive

Description: | Network timeout for proxied requests
Syntax: | `ProxyTimeout seconds`
Default: | `Value of `Timeout``
Context: | server config, virtual host
Status: | Extension
Module: | mod_proxy
Compatibility: | Available in Apache 2.0.31 and later

This directive allows a user to specifiy a timeout on proxy requests. This is useful when you have a slow/buggy appserver which hangs, and you would rather just return a timeout and fail gracefully instead of waiting however long it takes the server to return.

## ProxyVia Directive

Description: | Information provided in the `Via` HTTP response header for proxied requests
Syntax: | `ProxyVia On|Off|Full|Block`
Default: | `ProxyVia Off`
Context: | server config, virtual host
Status: | Extension
Module: | mod_proxy

This directive controls the use of the `Via:` HTTP header by the proxy. Its intended use is to control the flow of proxy requests along a chain of proxy servers. See RFC 2616 (HTTP/1.1), section 14.45 for an explanation of `Via:` header lines.

- If set to `Off`, which is the default, no special processing is performed. If a request or reply contains a `Via:` header, it is passed through unchanged.
- If set to `On`, each request and reply will get a `Via:` header line added for the current host.
- If set to `Full`, each generated `Via:` header line will additionally have the Apache server version shown as a `Via:` comment field.
- If set to `Block`, every proxy request will have all its `Via:` header lines removed. No new `Via:` header will be generated.

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