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# Apache Module mod_proxy_scgi

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Description: | SCGI gateway module for `mod_proxy`
Status: | Extension
Module Identifier: | proxy_scgi_module
Source File: | mod_proxy_scgi.c
Compatibility: | Available in version 2.2.14 and later

### Summary

This module requires the service of `mod_proxy`. It provides support for the SCGI protocol, version 1.

Thus, in order to get the ability of handling the SCGI protocol, `mod_proxy` and `mod_proxy_scgi` have to be present in the server.

### Warning

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

### Topics

- Examples
- Environment Variables

### Directives

### Bugfix checklist

- httpd changelog
- Known issues
- Report a bug

### See also

- `mod_proxy`
- `mod_proxy_balancer`
- Comments

## Examples

Remember, in order to make the following examples work, you have to enable `mod_proxy` and `mod_proxy_scgi`.

### Simple gateway

    ProxyPass "/scgi-bin/" "scgi://localhost:4000/"

The balanced gateway needs `mod_proxy_balancer` and at least one load balancer algorithm module, such as `mod_lbmethod_byrequests`, in addition to the proxy modules listed above. `mod_lbmethod_byrequests` is the default, and will be used for this example configuration.

### Balanced gateway

    ProxyPass "/scgi-bin/" "balancer://somecluster/"
    <Proxy "balancer://somecluster">
        BalancerMember "scgi://localhost:4000"
        BalancerMember "scgi://localhost:4001"
    </Proxy>

## Environment Variables

In addition to the configuration directives that control the behaviour of `mod_proxy`, an environment variable may also control the SCGI protocol provider:

proxy-scgi-pathinfo
  By default `mod_proxy_scgi` will neither create nor export the PATH_INFO environment variable. This allows the backend SCGI server to correctly determine SCRIPT_NAME and Script-URI and be compliant with RFC 3875 section 3.3. If instead you need `mod_proxy_scgi` to generate a "best guess" for PATH_INFO, set this env-var. The variable must be set before `SetEnv` is effective. `SetEnvIf` can be used instead: `SetEnvIf Request_URI . proxy-scgi-pathinfo`

## ProxySCGIInternalRedirect Directive

Description: | Enable or disable internal redirect responses from the backend
Syntax: | `ProxySCGIInternalRedirect On|Off|Headername`
Default: | `ProxySCGIInternalRedirect On`
Context: | server config, virtual host, directory
Status: | Extension
Module: | mod_proxy_scgi
Compatibility: | The Headername feature is available in version 2.4.13 and later

The `ProxySCGIInternalRedirect` enables the backend to internally redirect the gateway to a different URL. This feature originates in `mod_cgi`, which internally redirects the response if the response status is `OK` (`200`) and the response contains a `Location` (or configured alternate header) and its value starts with a slash (`/`). This value is interpreted as a new local URL that Apache httpd internally redirects to.

`mod_proxy_scgi` does the same as `mod_cgi` in this regard, except that you can turn off the feature or specify the use of a header other than `Location`.

### Example

        ProxySCGIInternalRedirect Off

    # Django and some other frameworks will fully qualify "local URLs"
    # set by the application, so an alternate header must be used.
    <Location /django-app/>
        ProxySCGIInternalRedirect X-Location
    </Location>

## ProxySCGISendfile Directive

Description: | Enable evaluation of X-Sendfile pseudo response header
Syntax: | `ProxySCGISendfile On|Off|Headername`
Default: | `ProxySCGISendfile Off`
Context: | server config, virtual host, directory
Status: | Extension
Module: | mod_proxy_scgi

The `ProxySCGISendfile` directive enables the SCGI backend to let files be served directly by the gateway. This is useful for performance purposes — httpd can use `sendfile` or other optimizations, which are not possible if the file comes over the backend socket. Additionally, the file contents are not transmitted twice.

The `ProxySCGISendfile` argument determines the gateway behaviour:

`Off`
  No special handling takes place.
`On`
  The gateway looks for a backend response header called `X-Sendfile` and interprets the value as the filename to serve. The header is removed from the final response headers. This is equivalent to `ProxySCGISendfile X-Sendfile`.
anything else
  Similar to `On`, but instead of the hardcoded header name `X-Sendfile`, the argument is used as the header name.

### Example

    # Use the default header (X-Sendfile)
    ProxySCGISendfile On

    # Use a different header
    ProxySCGISendfile X-Send-Static

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