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<H1 ALIGN="CENTER">Module mod_setenvif</H1>
<P>
<STRONG>is</STRONG> compiled in by default. It provides for
the ability to set environment variables based upon attributes of the
request.
</P>
<H2>Summary</H2>
<P>
The <SAMP>mod_setenvif</SAMP> module allows you to set environment
variables according to whether different aspects of the request match
regular expressions you specify. These envariables can be used by
other parts of the server to make decisions about actions to be taken.
</P>
<P>The directives are considered in the order they appear in the
configuration files. So more complex sequences can be used, such
as this example, which sets <CODE>netscape</CODE> if the browser
is mozilla but not MSIE.
<BLOCKQUOTE><PRE>
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla netscape
BrowserMatch MSIE !netscape
</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE>
</P>
<H2>Directives</H2>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="#BrowserMatch">BrowserMatch</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#BrowserMatchNoCase">BrowserMatchNoCase</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#SetEnvIf">SetEnvIf</A>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#SetEnvIfNoCase">SetEnvIfNoCase</A>
</LI>
</UL>
<HR> <!-- the HR is part of the directive description -->
<H2><A NAME="BrowserMatch">The <SAMP>BrowserMatch</SAMP> Directive</A></H2>
<P>
<A
HREF="directive-dict.html#Syntax"
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><STRONG>Syntax:</STRONG></A> BrowserMatch <EM>regex envar[=value] [...]</EM>
<BR>
<A
HREF="directive-dict.html#Default"
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><STRONG>Default:</STRONG></A> <EM>none</EM>
<BR>
<A
HREF="directive-dict.html#Context"
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><STRONG>Context:</STRONG></A> server config
<BR>
<A
HREF="directive-dict.html#Override"
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><STRONG>Override:</STRONG></A> <EM>none</EM>
<BR>
<A
HREF="directive-dict.html#Status"
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><STRONG>Status:</STRONG></A> Base
<BR>
<A
HREF="directive-dict.html#Module"
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><STRONG>Module:</STRONG></A> mod_setenvif
<BR>
<A
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><STRONG>Compatibility:</STRONG></A> Apache 1.2 and above (in Apache 1.2
this directive was found in the now-obsolete mod_browser module)
</P>
<P>
The BrowserMatch directive defines environment variables based on the
<SAMP>User-Agent</SAMP> HTTP request header field. The first argument
should be a POSIX.2 extended regular expression (similar to an
<SAMP>egrep</SAMP>-style regex). The rest of the arguments give the
names of variables to set, and optionally values to which they should
be set. These take the form of
</P>
<OL>
<LI><SAMP><EM>varname</EM></SAMP>, or
</LI>
<LI><SAMP>!<EM>varname</EM></SAMP>, or
</LI>
<LI><SAMP><EM>varname</EM>=<EM>value</EM></SAMP>
</LI>
</OL>
<P>
In the first form, the value will be set to "1". The second
will remove the given variable if already defined, and the third will
set the variable to the value given by <SAMP><EM>value</EM></SAMP>. If a
<SAMP>User-Agent</SAMP> string matches more than one entry, they will
be merged. Entries are processed in the order in which they appear,
and later entries can override earlier ones.
</P>
<P>
For example:
</P>
<PRE>
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla forms jpeg=yes browser=netscape
BrowserMatch "^Mozilla/[2-3]" tables agif frames javascript
BrowserMatch MSIE !javascript
</PRE>
<P>
Note that the regular expression string is
<STRONG>case-sensitive</STRONG>. For cane-INsensitive matching, see
the
<A
HREF="#BrowserMatchNoCase"
><SAMP>BrowserMatchNoCase</SAMP></A>
directive.
</P>
<P>
The <SAMP>BrowserMatch</SAMP> and <SAMP>BrowserMatchNoCase</SAMP>
directives are special cases of the
<A
HREF="#SetEnvIf"
><SAMP>SetEnvIf</SAMP></A>
and
<A
HREF="#SetEnvIfNoCase"
><SAMP>SetEnvIfNoCase</SAMP></A>
directives. The following two lines have the same effect:
</P>
<PRE>
BrowserMatchNoCase Robot is_a_robot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent Robot is_a_robot
</PRE>
<HR> <!-- the HR is part of the directive description -->
<H2>
<A NAME="BrowserMatchNoCase">
The <SAMP>BrowserMatchNoCase</SAMP> Directive
</A>
</H2>
<P>
<A
HREF="directive-dict.html#Syntax"
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><STRONG>Syntax:</STRONG></A> BrowserMatchNoCase <EM>regex envar[=value]
[...]</EM>
<BR>
<A
HREF="directive-dict.html#Default"
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><STRONG>Default:</STRONG></A> <EM>none</EM>
<BR>
<A
HREF="directive-dict.html#Context"
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><STRONG>Context:</STRONG></A> server config
<BR>
<A
HREF="directive-dict.html#Override"
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><STRONG>Override:</STRONG></A> <EM>none</EM>
<BR>
<A
HREF="directive-dict.html#Status"
REL="Help"
><STRONG>Status:</STRONG></A> Base
<BR>
<A
HREF="directive-dict.html#Module"
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><STRONG>Module:</STRONG></A> mod_setenvif
<BR>
<A
HREF="directive-dict.html#Compatibility"
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><STRONG>Compatibility:</STRONG></A> Apache 1.2 and above (in Apache 1.2
this directive was found in the now-obsolete mod_browser module)
</P>
<P>
The <SAMP>BrowserMatchNoCase</SAMP> directive is semantically identical to
the
<A
HREF="#BrowserMatch"
><SAMP>BrowserMatch</SAMP></A>
directive. However, it provides for case-insensitive matching. For
example:
</P>
<PRE>
BrowserMatchNoCase mac platform=macintosh
BrowserMatchNoCase win platform=windows
</PRE>
<P>
The <SAMP>BrowserMatch</SAMP> and <SAMP>BrowserMatchNoCase</SAMP>
directives are special cases of the
<A
HREF="#SetEnvIf"
><SAMP>SetEnvIf</SAMP></A>
and
<A
HREF="#SetEnvIfNoCase"
><SAMP>SetEnvIfNoCase</SAMP></A>
directives. The following two lines have the same effect:
</P>
<PRE>
BrowserMatchNoCase Robot is_a_robot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent Robot is_a_robot
</PRE>
<HR> <!-- the HR is part of the directive description -->
<H2>
<A NAME="SetEnvIf">
The <SAMP>SetEnvIf</SAMP> Directive
</A>
</H2>
<P>
<A
HREF="directive-dict.html#Syntax"
REL="Help"
><STRONG>Syntax:</STRONG></A> SetEnvIf <EM> attribute regex envar[=value]
[...]</EM>
<BR>
<A
HREF="directive-dict.html#Default"
REL="Help"
><STRONG>Default:</STRONG></A> <EM>none</EM>
<BR>
<A
HREF="directive-dict.html#Context"
REL="Help"
><STRONG>Context:</STRONG></A> server config
<BR>
<A
HREF="directive-dict.html#Override"
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><STRONG>Override:</STRONG></A> <EM>none</EM>
<BR>
<A
HREF="directive-dict.html#Status"
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><STRONG>Status:</STRONG></A> Base
<BR>
<A
HREF="directive-dict.html#Module"
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><STRONG>Module:</STRONG></A> mod_setenvif
<BR>
<A
HREF="directive-dict.html#Compatibility"
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><STRONG>Compatibility:</STRONG></A> Apache 1.3 and above; the
Request_Protocol keyword and environment-variable matching are only
available with 1.3.7 and later
</P>
<P>
The <SAMP>SetEnvIf</SAMP> directive defines environment variables
based on attributes of the request. These attributes can be the
values of various HTTP request header fields (see
for more information about these), or of other aspects of the request,
including the following:
</P>
<UL>
<LI><SAMP>Remote_Host</SAMP> - the hostname (if available) of the
client making the request
</LI>
<LI><SAMP>Remote_Addr</SAMP> - the IP address of the client making
the request
</LI>
<LI><SAMP>Remote_User</SAMP> - the authenticated username (if
available)
</LI>
<LI><SAMP>Request_Method</SAMP> - the name of the method being used
(<SAMP>GET</SAMP>, <SAMP>POST</SAMP>, <EM>et cetera</EM>)
</LI>
<LI><SAMP>Request_Protocol</SAMP> - the name and version of the protocol
<EM>etc.</EM>)
</LI>
<LI><SAMP>Request_URI</SAMP> - the portion of the URL following the
scheme and host portion
</LI>
</UL>
<P>
Some of the more commonly used request header field names include
<SAMP>Host</SAMP>, <SAMP>User-Agent</SAMP>, and <SAMP>Referer</SAMP>.
</P>
<P>
If the <EM>attribute</EM> name doesn't match any of the special keywords,
nor any of the request's header field names, it is tested as the name
of an environment variable in the list of those associated with the request.
This allows <CODE>SetEnvIf</CODE> directives to test against the result
of prior matches.
</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<STRONG>Only those environment variables defined by earlier
<CODE>SetEnvIf[NoCase]</CODE> directives are available for testing in
this manner. 'Earlier' means that they were defined at a broader scope
(such as server-wide) or previously in the current directive's
scope.</STRONG>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
SetEnvIf Request_URI "\.gif$" object_is_image=gif
SetEnvIf Request_URI "\.jpg$" object_is_image=jpg
SetEnvIf Request_URI "\.xbm$" object_is_image=xbm
:
SetEnvIf Referer www\.mydomain\.com intra_site_referral
:
SetEnvIf object_is_image xbm XBIT_PROCESSING=1
</PRE>
<P>
The first three will set the envariable <SAMP>object_is_image</SAMP> if the
request was for an image file, and the fourth sets
<SAMP>intra_site_referral</SAMP> if the referring page was somewhere
</P>
<HR> <!-- the HR is part of the directive description -->
<H2>
<A NAME="SetEnvIfNoCase">
The <SAMP>SetEnvIfNoCase</SAMP> Directive
</A>
</H2>
<P>
<A
HREF="directive-dict.html#Syntax"
REL="Help"
><STRONG>Syntax:</STRONG></A> SetEnvIfNoCase
<EM> attribute regex envar[=value] [...]</EM>
<BR>
<A
HREF="directive-dict.html#Default"
REL="Help"
><STRONG>Default:</STRONG></A> <EM>none</EM>
<BR>
<A
HREF="directive-dict.html#Context"
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><STRONG>Context:</STRONG></A> server config
<BR>
<A
HREF="directive-dict.html#Override"
REL="Help"
><STRONG>Override:</STRONG></A> <EM>none</EM>
<BR>
<A
HREF="directive-dict.html#Status"
REL="Help"
><STRONG>Status:</STRONG></A> Base
<BR>
<A
HREF="directive-dict.html#Module"
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><STRONG>Module:</STRONG></A> mod_setenvif
<BR>
<A
HREF="directive-dict.html#Compatibility"
REL="Help"
><STRONG>Compatibility:</STRONG></A> Apache 1.3 and above
</P>
<P>
The <SAMP>SetEnvIfNoCase</SAMP> is semantically identical to the
<A
HREF="#SetEnvIf"
><SAMP>SetEnvIf</SAMP></A>
directive, and differs only in that the regular expression matching is
performed in a case-insensitive manner. For example:
</P>
<PRE>
SetEnvIfNoCase Host Apache\.Org site=apache
</PRE>
<P>
This will cause the <SAMP>site</SAMP> envariable to be set to
"<SAMP>apache</SAMP>" if the HTTP request header field
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