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<h1>Context</h1><section
class="ls-spacer-small-bottom">In LiteSpeed Web Server
terminology, a "context" is a virtual location, a common parent
URL,
that identifies a group of resources. Contexts can be thought of as
different directories
in your website's directory tree. For example, "/" is the
root context mapped to the
document root of a website. "/cgi-bin/" is a context farther up
on the tree, dedicated
to the CGI applications for this site. A context can be explicitly defined
in
LiteSpeed's WebAdmin console for the following purposes:
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<li>To make a file system outside of the document root
accessible.</li>
<li>To block access to certain resources.</li>
<li>To setup user-level authentication for certain
resources.</li>
<li>To create mount points for external applications.</li>
<li>To redirect requests to another location.</li>
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<h2 id="top">Table of Contents</h2><section
class="toc"><section
class="toc-row"><header>Context
Attributes</header><p>
<a href="#ctxType">Context
Type</a></p></section>
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<section><div class="helpitem"><article
class="ls-helpitem"><div><header
id="ctxType"><h3>Context Type<span
class="ls-permlink"><a
href="#ctxType"></a></span><span
class="top"><a
href="#top">⇑</a></span></h3></header></div><h4>Description</h4><p>The
type of context created determines it's
usage.:<br><br><b>Static</b> context can be used to
map a URI to a directory either outside document root or within
it.<br> <b>Java Web App</b> context is used to
automatically import a predefined Java Application in an AJPv13 compilant
Java servlet engine.<br> <b>Servlet</b> context is used
to import a specific servlet under a web application.<br>
<b>Fast CGI</b> context is a mount point of Fast CGI
application.<br> <b>LiteSpeed SAPI</b> context can be
used to associate a URI with an LSAPI application.<br>
<b>Proxy</b> context enables this virtual host to serve as a
transparant reverse proxy server to an external web server or application
server.<br> <b>CGI</b> context can be used to specify a
directory only contains CGI scripts.<br> <b>Load
Balancer</b> context can be used to assign a different cluster for
that context.<br> <b>Redirect</b> context can set up an
internal or external redirect URI.<br> <b>App Server</b>
context is used for Rack/Rails, WSGI, or Node.js applications.<br>
<b>Rack/Rails</b> context is specifically used for Rack/Rails
applications. It is recommended to configure Rack/Rails applications as an
<b>App Server</b> context instead.<br></p>
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