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+<div id="preamble"><h1>Apache Module mod_macro</h1>
+<div class="toplang">
+<p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="../en/mod/mod_macro.html" title="English">&nbsp;en&nbsp;</a> |
+<a href="../fr/mod/mod_macro.html" hreflang="fr" rel="alternate" title="Français">&nbsp;fr&nbsp;</a></p>
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+<table class="module"><tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Provides macros within apache httpd runtime configuration files</td></tr>
+<tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
+<tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#ModuleIdentifier">Module Identifier:</a></th><td>macro_module</td></tr>
+<tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#SourceFile">Source File:</a></th><td>mod_macro.c</td></tr>
+<tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in httpd 2.4.5 and later</td></tr></table>
+<h3>Summary</h3>
+
+
+ <p>Provides macros within Apache httpd runtime configuration files,
+ to ease the process of creating numerous similar configuration
+ blocks. When the server starts up, the macros are expanded using the
+ provided parameters, and the result is processed as along with the
+ rest of the configuration file.</p>
+
+</div>
+<div id="quickview"><a href="https://www.apache.org/foundation/contributing.html" class="badge"><img src="https://www.apache.org/images/SupportApache-small.png" alt="Support Apache!" /></a><h3>Topics</h3>
+<ul id="topics">
+<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#usage">Usage</a></li>
+<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#tips">Tips</a></li>
+<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#examples">Examples</a></li>
+</ul><h3 class="directives">Directives</h3>
+<ul id="toc">
+<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#macro">&lt;Macro&gt;</a></li>
+<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#undefmacro">UndefMacro</a></li>
+<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#use">Use</a></li>
+</ul>
+<h3>Bugfix checklist</h3><ul class="seealso"><li><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/CHANGES_2.4">httpd changelog</a></li><li><a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&amp;list_id=144532&amp;product=Apache%20httpd-2&amp;query_format=specific&amp;order=changeddate%20DESC%2Cpriority%2Cbug_severity&amp;component=mod_macro">Known issues</a></li><li><a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Apache%20httpd-2&amp;component=mod_macro">Report a bug</a></li></ul><h3>See also</h3>
+<ul class="seealso">
+<li><a href="#comments_section">Comments</a></li></ul></div>
+<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="usage" id="usage">Usage</a></h2>
+
+<p>Macros are defined using <code class="directive"><a href="#macro">&lt;Macro&gt;</a></code> blocks, which contain the portion of
+your configuration that needs to be repeated, complete with variables
+for those parts that will need to be substituted.</p>
+
+<p>For example, you might use a macro to define a <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#virtualhost">&lt;VirtualHost&gt;</a></code> block, in order to define
+multiple similar virtual hosts:</p>
+
+<pre class="prettyprint lang-config">&lt;Macro VHost $name $domain&gt;
+&lt;VirtualHost *:80&gt;
+ ServerName $domain
+ ServerAlias www.$domain
+
+ DocumentRoot "/var/www/vhosts/$name"
+ ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd/$name.error_log"
+ CustomLog "/var/log/httpd/$name.access_log" combined
+&lt;/VirtualHost&gt;
+&lt;/Macro&gt;</pre>
+
+
+<p>Macro names are case-insensitive, like httpd configuration
+directives. However, variable names are case sensitive.</p>
+
+<p>You would then invoke this macro several times to create virtual
+hosts:</p>
+
+<pre class="prettyprint lang-config">Use VHost example example.com
+Use VHost myhost hostname.org
+Use VHost apache apache.org
+
+UndefMacro VHost</pre>
+
+
+<p>At server startup time, each of these <code class="directive"><a href="#use">Use</a></code>
+invocations would be expanded into a full virtualhost, as
+described by the <code class="directive"><a href="#macro">&lt;Macro&gt;</a></code>
+definition.</p>
+
+<p>The <code class="directive"><a href="#undefmacro">UndefMacro</a></code> directive is
+used so that later macros using the same variable names don't result in
+conflicting definitions.</p>
+
+<p>A more elaborate version of this example may be seen below in the
+Examples section.</p>
+
+</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="tips" id="tips">Tips</a></h2>
+
+<p>Parameter names should begin with a sigil such as <code>$</code>,
+<code>%</code>, or <code>@</code>, so that they are clearly
+identifiable, and also in order to help deal with interactions with
+other directives, such as the core <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#define">Define</a></code> directive. Failure to do so will
+result in a warning. Nevertheless, you are encouraged to have a good
+knowledge of your entire server configuration in order to avoid reusing
+the same variables in different scopes, which can cause confusion.</p>
+
+<p>Parameters prefixed with either <code>$</code> or <code>%</code> are
+not escaped. Parameters prefixes with <code>@</code> are escaped in
+quotes.</p>
+
+<p>Avoid using a parameter which contains another parameter as a prefix,
+(For example, <code>$win</code> and <code>$winter</code>) as this may
+cause confusion at expression evaluation time. In the event of such
+confusion, the longest possible parameter name is used.</p>
+
+<p>If you want to use a value within another string, it is useful to
+surround the parameter in braces, to avoid confusion:</p>
+
+<pre class="prettyprint lang-config">&lt;Macro DocRoot ${docroot}&gt;
+ DocumentRoot "/var/www/${docroot}/htdocs"
+&lt;/Macro&gt;</pre>
+
+
+</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="examples" id="examples">Examples</a></h2>
+
+
+<h3>Virtual Host Definition</h3>
+
+
+<p>A common usage of <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_macro.html">mod_macro</a></code> is for the creation of
+dynamically-generated virtual hosts.</p>
+
+<pre class="prettyprint lang-config">## Define a VHost Macro for repetitive configurations
+
+&lt;Macro VHost $host $port $dir&gt;
+ Listen $port
+ &lt;VirtualHost *:$port&gt;
+
+ ServerName $host
+ DocumentRoot "$dir"
+
+ # Public document root
+ &lt;Directory "$dir"&gt;
+ Require all granted
+ &lt;/Directory&gt;
+
+ # limit access to intranet subdir.
+ &lt;Directory "$dir/intranet"&gt;
+ Require ip 10.0.0.0/8
+ &lt;/Directory&gt;
+ &lt;/VirtualHost&gt;
+&lt;/Macro&gt;
+
+## Use of VHost with different arguments.
+
+Use VHost www.apache.org 80 /vhosts/apache/htdocs
+Use VHost example.org 8080 /vhosts/example/htdocs
+Use VHost www.example.fr 1234 /vhosts/example.fr/htdocs</pre>
+
+
+
+<h3>Removal of a macro definition</h3>
+
+
+<p>It's recommended that you undefine a macro once you've used it. This
+avoids confusion in a complex configuration file where there may be
+conflicts in variable names.</p>
+
+<pre class="prettyprint lang-config">&lt;Macro DirGroup $dir $group&gt;
+ &lt;Directory "$dir"&gt;
+ Require group $group
+ &lt;/Directory&gt;
+&lt;/Macro&gt;
+
+Use DirGroup /www/apache/private private
+Use DirGroup /www/apache/server admin
+
+UndefMacro DirGroup</pre>
+
+
+
+
+</div>
+<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
+<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="Macro" id="Macro">&lt;Macro&gt;</a> <a name="macro" id="macro">Directive</a></h2>
+<table class="directive">
+<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Define a configuration file macro</td></tr>
+<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>
+&lt;Macro <var>name</var> [<var>par1</var> .. <var>parN</var>]&gt;
+... &lt;/Macro&gt;</code></td></tr>
+<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory</td></tr>
+<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
+<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_macro</td></tr>
+</table>
+ <p>The <code class="directive">&lt;Macro&gt;</code> directive controls the
+ definition of a macro within the server runtime configuration files.
+ The first argument is the name of the macro.
+ Other arguments are parameters to the macro. It is good practice to prefix
+ parameter names with any of '<code>$%@</code>', and not macro names
+ with such characters.
+ </p>
+
+ <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">&lt;Macro LocalAccessPolicy&gt;
+ Require ip 10.2.16.0/24
+&lt;/Macro&gt;
+
+&lt;Macro RestrictedAccessPolicy $ipnumbers&gt;
+ Require ip $ipnumbers
+&lt;/Macro&gt;</pre>
+
+
+</div>
+<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
+<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="UndefMacro" id="UndefMacro">UndefMacro</a> <a name="undefmacro" id="undefmacro">Directive</a></h2>
+<table class="directive">
+<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Undefine a macro</td></tr>
+<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>UndefMacro <var>name</var></code></td></tr>
+<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory</td></tr>
+<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
+<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_macro</td></tr>
+</table>
+ <p>The <code class="directive">UndefMacro</code> directive undefines a macro
+ which has been defined before hand.</p>
+
+ <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">UndefMacro LocalAccessPolicy
+UndefMacro RestrictedAccessPolicy</pre>
+
+
+</div>
+<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
+<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="Use" id="Use">Use</a> <a name="use" id="use">Directive</a></h2>
+<table class="directive">
+<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Use a macro</td></tr>
+<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>Use <var>name</var> [<var>value1</var> ... <var>valueN</var>]
+</code></td></tr>
+<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory</td></tr>
+<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
+<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_macro</td></tr>
+</table>
+ <p>The <code class="directive">Use</code> directive controls the use of a macro.
+ The specified macro is expanded. It must be given the same number of
+ arguments as in the macro definition. The provided values are
+ associated to their corresponding initial parameters and are substituted
+ before processing.</p>
+
+ <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">Use LocalAccessPolicy
+...
+Use RestrictedAccessPolicy "192.54.172.0/24 192.54.148.0/24"</pre>
+
+
+ <p>is equivalent, with the macros defined above, to:</p>
+
+ <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">Require ip 10.2.16.0/24
+...
+Require ip 192.54.172.0/24 192.54.148.0/24</pre>
+
+
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