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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

### Directives

### 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` in addition to the already mentioned proxy modules.

### Balanced gateway

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

## ProxySCGIInternalRedirect Directive

Description: | Enable or disable internal redirect responses from the backend
Syntax: | `ProxySCGIInternalRedirect On|Off`
Default: | `ProxySCGIInternalRedirect On`
Context: | server config, virtual host, directory
Status: | Extension
Module: | mod_proxy_scgi

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

`mod_proxy_scgi` does the same as `mod_cgi` in this regard, except that you can turn off the feature.

### Example

`ProxySCGIInternalRedirect Off`

## 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 serve directly by the gateway. This is useful performance purposes -- the httpd can use `sendfile` or other optimizations, which are not possible if the file comes over the backend socket.

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 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 the argument is applied as header name.

### Example

`# Use the default header (X-Sendfile)
ProxySCGISendfile On
# Use a different header
ProxySCGISendfile X-Send-Static`

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