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Use Server's Log | File Name | Log Level | Rolling Size (bytes) | Keep Days | Compress Archive
Log Control | File Name | Piped Logger | Log Format | Log Headers | Rolling Size (bytes) | Keep Days | Compress Archive | Bytes Log
Use Server Index Files | Index Files | Auto Index | Auto Index URI
Specifies the document root for this virtual host. $VH_ROOT/html is recommended. This directory is referred to as $DOC_ROOT in contexts.
A path which can be absolute, relative to $SERVER_ROOT, or relative to $VH_ROOT.
Specifies email address(es) of the administrator(s) of this virtual host.
Comma separated list of email addresses
Specifies whether to enable GZIP/Brotli compression for this virtual host. This setting is only effective when compression is enabled at the server level. Compression settings are configured at the server level (Tuning > GZIP/Brotli Compression).
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Enable Compression, Brotli Compression Level (Dynamic Content)
Enterprise Edition Only Specifies whether to enable/disable IP Geolocation lookup. Can be set at server, virtual host, or context level. IP Geolocation is disabled by default when using value "Not Set".
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A Linux kernel feature that limits, accounts for, and isolates the resource usage (CPU, memory, disk I/O, network, etc.) of a collection of processes. You must be running cgroups v2 which is determined by the existence of the file /sys/fs/cgroup/cgroup.controllers.
Setting this to Disabled at the Server level will disable this setting server-wide. In all other cases, the Server level setting can be overridden at the Virtual Host level.
Default values:
Server level: Off
VH level: Inherit Server level setting
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Specifies whether to put log messages from this virtual host into the server log file instead of creating its own log file.
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Specifies the path for the log file.
Filename which can be an absolute path or a relative path to $SERVER_ROOT, $VH_ROOT.
Place the log file on a separate disk.
Specifies the level of logging. Available levels (from high to low) are ERROR, WARNING, NOTICE, INFO, and DEBUG. Only messages with a level higher than or equal to the current setting will be logged. If you want to set it to DEBUG, you must set the server log level to DEBUG as well. The level of debugging is controlled solely at the server level by Debug Level.
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Unless Debug Level is set to a level other than NONE, DEBUG log level does not have any performance impact and is recommended.
Specifies when the current log file needs to be rolled over, also known as log rotation. When the file size is over the rollover limit, the active log file will be renamed to log_name.mm_dd_yyyy(.sequence) in the same directory and a new active log file will be created. The actual size of the rotated log file once it is created will sometimes be a little bigger than this size limit. Set to 0 to disable log rotation.
Integer number
Append "K", "M", "G" to the number for kilo-, mega- and giga- bytes.
Specifies how many days the access log file will be kept on disk. Only rotated log files older than the specified number of days will be deleted. The current log file will not be touched regardless how many days worth of data it contains. If you do not want to auto-delete stale and very old log files, set this to 0.
Integer number
Specifies whether to compress rotated log files in order to save disk space.
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Log files are highly compressible and this is recommended to reduce disk usage for old logs.
Where the access log should be written. There are three options:
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The access log filename.
Filename which can be an absolute path or a relative path to $SERVER_ROOT, $VH_ROOT.
Put access log file on a separate disk.
Specifies the external application that will receive the access log data sent by LiteSpeed through a pipe on its STDIN stream (file handle is 0). When this field is specified, the access log will be sent only to the logger application and not the access log file specified in previous entry.
The logger application must be defined in External Apps section first. Server-level access logging can only use an external logger application defined at the server level. Virtual host-level access logging can only use a logger application defined at the virtual host level.
The logger process is spawned in the same way as other external (CGI/FastCGI/LSAPI) processes. This means it will execute as the user ID specified in the virtual host's External App Set UID Mode settings and will never run on behalf of a privileged user.
LiteSpeed web server performs simple load balancing among multiple logger applications if more than one instance of a logger application is configured. LiteSpeed server always attempts to keep the number of logger applications as low as possible. Only when one logger application fails to process access log entries in time will the server attempt to spawn another instance of the logger application.
If a logger crashes, the web server will start another instance but the log data in the stream buffer will be lost. It is possible to lose log data if external loggers cannot keep up with the speed and volume of the log stream.
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Enterprise Edition Only Specifies the log format for the access log. When log format is set, it will override the Log Headers setting.
String. The syntax of log format is compatible with Apache 2.0's custom log format.
Specifies whether to log HTTP request headers: Referer, UserAgent, and Host.
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Turn this off if you do not need these headers in the access log.
Specifies the path to the bandwidth bytes log file. When specified, a cPanel compatible bandwidth log will be created. This will log the total bytes transferred for a request including both the request and reply bodies.
Filename which can be an absolute path or a relative path to $SERVER_ROOT.
Put the log file on a separate disk.
Specifies whether to use the server's index file settings. If set to Yes, only the server's settings will be used. If set to No, the server's settings will not be used. If set to Addition, additional index files can be added to server's index file list for this virtual host. If you want to disable index files for this virtual host, you can set the value to No and leave the index files field empty.
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Specifies names of index files that will be searched sequentially when a URL is mapped to a directory. You can customize it at the server, virtual host, and context level.
Comma-delimited list of index filenames.
Only set index files that you need.
Specifies whether to generate a directory index on the fly when index files listed in Index Files are not available in a directory. This option is customizable at the virtual host and context level, and is inherited along the directory tree until it is explicitly overridden. You can customize the generated index page. Please check online wiki How-tos.
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It is recommended to turn off Auto Index wherever possible to prevent revealing confidential data.
Specifies the URI that will be used to generate the index page when index files listed in Index Files are not available in a directory. LiteSpeed web server uses an external script to generate the index page providing the maximum customization flexibility. The default script produces an index page with same look as Apache's. To customize the generated index page, please read online wiki How-tos. The directory to be indexed is passed to the script via an environment variable "LS_AI_PATH".
URI
Whenever the server has a problem processing a request, the server will return an error code and an html page as an error message to the web client. Error codes are defined in the HTTP protocol (see RFC 2616). LiteSpeed web server has a built-in default error page for each error code, but a customized page can be configured for each error code as well. These error pages can be even further customized to be unique for each virtual host.
Specifies the HTTP status code for the error page. Only the selected HTTP status code will have this customized error page.
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Specifies the URL of the customized error page. The server will forward the request to this URL when the corresponding HTTP status code has returned. If this URL refers to a non-existing resource, the built-in error page will be used. The URL can be a static file, a dynamically generated page, or a page on another web site (a URL starting with "http(s)://"). When referring to a page on another web site, the client will receive a redirect status code instead of the original status code.
URL
Specifies the script file suffixes that will be handled by this script handler. Suffixes must be unique.
Comma delimited list with period "." character prohibited.
The server will automatically add a special MIME type ("application/x-httpd-[suffix]") for the first suffix in the list. For example, MIME type "application/x-httpd-php53" will be added for suffix "php53". Suffixes after the first need to set up in the MIME Settings settings.
Though we list suffixes in this field, the script handlers use MIME types, not suffixes, to decide which scripts to handle. You can thus use the Apache configuration directives "AddType" and "ForceType" (which control file MIME types) in .htaccess files to change which script handler certain files will use. For example, with the directive AddType application/x-httpd-php53 .php in a properly placed .htaccess file, you can stipulate that php files in this directory have the MIME type "application/x-httpd-php53" and thus will be handled by the script handler that uses MIME type "application/x-httpd-php53" (suffix "php53"). This then allows you to assign different script handlers, not only for different file suffixes, but also based on the locations of files.
Only specify the suffixes you really need.
Specifies the type of external application that processes these script files. Available types are: CGI, FastCGI, Web Server, LSAPI app, Load balancer, or Servlet Engine. For FastCGI, Web Server and Servlet Engine, a Handler Name needs to be specified. This is an external application name as predefined in the External Apps section.
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Specifies the name of the external application that processes the script files when the handler type is FastCGI, Web Server, LSAPI, Load Balancer, or Servlet Engine.
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The following directives are supported in a directory level access control file (.htaccess file).
Specifies what directives in an access control file are allowed. An access control file can be placed in a directory to control the accessibility of files under that directory.
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If there is no need for directory level configuration customization, check None.
Specifies the name of access control files. These files will be used only if Allow Override is enabled. Default name is .htaccess. You can configure this at server level and virtual host level. Server level is the default setting, and you can override it at virtual host level.
Filename starting with "."
Specifies whether to generate an Expires header for static files. If enabled, an Expires header will be generated based on Expires Default and Expires By Type.
This can be set at server, virtual host and context level. Lower level settings will override higher level ones, i.e. context settings will override virtual host settings and virtual host settings will override server settings.
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Specifies default settings for Expires header generation. This setting takes effect when Enable Expires is set to "Yes". It can be overridden by Expires By Type. Do not set this default at the server or virtual host level unless you have to, since it will generate Expires headers for all pages. Most of time this should be set at the context level for certain directories that do not change often. If there is no default setting, no Expires header will be generated for types not specified in Expires By Type.
A|Mseconds
The file will expire after base time(A|M) plus specified seconds. Base time "A" sets the value to the client's access time and "M" to the file's last modified time.
Specifies Expires header settings for individual MIME types.
Comma delimited list of "MIME-type=A|Mseconds". The file will expire after base time (A|M) plus specified seconds.
Base time "A" sets the value to the client's access time and "M" to the file's last modified time. MIME-type accepts wildcard "*", like image/*.
Specifies Apache configuration directives (supported by LiteSpeed) that you want to use in LiteSpeed native configuration file. For example, to override the default PHP configurations (php.ini entries) the server will need four directives: "php_value", "php_flag", "php_admin_value" and "php_admin_flag".
Same as Apache configuration file.
Specifies the URI(s) that will use this WebSocket backend. Traffic to this URI will only be forwarded to the WebSocket backend when it contains a WebSocket upgrade request.
Traffic without this upgrade request will automatically be forwarded to the Context that this URI belongs to. If no Context exists for this URI, LSWS will treat this traffic as though it is accessing a static context with the location $DOC_ROOT/URI.
A plain URI (starting with "/"). If the URI ends with a "/", then this WebSocket backend will include all sub-URIs under this URI.
A unique socket address used by the WebSocket backend. IPv4 sockets, IPv6 sockets, and Unix Domain Sockets (UDS) are supported. IPv4 and IPv6 sockets can be used for communication over the network. UDS can only be used when the WebSocket backend resides on the same machine as the server.
IPv4/IPv6 address:port, UDS://path, or unix:path
If the WebSocket backend runs on the same machine, UDS is preferred. If you have to use an IPv4 or IPv6 socket, set the IP address to localhost or 127.0.0.1, so the WebSocket backend is inaccessible from other machines.
Unix Domain Sockets generally provide higher performance than IPv4 or IPv6 sockets.
