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<div id="preamble"><h1>Apache Module mod_dbd</h1>
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<table class="module"><tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Manages SQL database connections</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#ModuleIdentifier">Module Identifier:</a></th><td>dbd_module</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#SourceFile">Source File:</a></th><td>mod_dbd.c</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Version 2.1 and later</td></tr></table>
<h3>Summary</h3>

    <p><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_dbd.html">mod_dbd</a></code> manages SQL database connections using
    <a class="glossarylink" href="../glossary.html#apr" title="see glossary">APR</a>.  It provides database connections on request
    to modules requiring SQL database functions, and takes care of
    managing databases with optimal efficiency and scalability
    for both threaded and non-threaded MPMs.  For details, see the
    <a href="http://apr.apache.org/">APR</a> website and this overview of the
    <a href="http://people.apache.org/~niq/dbd.html">Apache DBD Framework</a>
    by its original developer.
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<div id="quickview"><h3 class="directives">Directives</h3>
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<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#dbdexptime">DBDExptime</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#dbdkeep">DBDKeep</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#dbdmax">DBDMax</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#dbdmin">DBDMin</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#dbdparams">DBDParams</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#dbdpersist">DBDPersist</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#dbdpreparesql">DBDPrepareSQL</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#dbdriver">DBDriver</a></li>
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<h3>Topics</h3>
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<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#pooling">Connection Pooling</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#API">Apache DBD API</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#prepared">SQL Prepared Statements</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#security">SECURITY WARNING</a></li>
</ul><h3>See also</h3>
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<li><a href="../misc/password_encryptions.html">Password Formats</a></li>
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<h2><a name="pooling" id="pooling">Connection Pooling</a></h2>
    <p>This module manages database connections, in a manner
    optimised for the platform.  On non-threaded platforms,
    it provides a persistent connection in the manner of
    classic LAMP (Linux, Apache, Mysql, Perl/PHP/Python).
    On threaded platform, it provides an altogether more
    scalable and efficient <em>connection pool</em>, as
    described in <a href="http://www.apachetutor.org/dev/reslist">this
    article at ApacheTutor</a>.  Note that <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_dbd.html">mod_dbd</a></code>
    supersedes the modules presented in that article.</p>
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<h2><a name="API" id="API">Apache DBD API</a></h2>
    <p><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_dbd.html">mod_dbd</a></code> exports five functions for other modules
    to use. The API is as follows:</p>

    <div class="example"><pre><code>typedef struct {
    apr_dbd_t *handle;
    apr_dbd_driver_t *driver;
    apr_hash_t *prepared;
} ap_dbd_t;

/* Export functions to access the database */

/* acquire a connection that MUST be explicitly closed.
 * Returns NULL on error
 */
AP_DECLARE(ap_dbd_t*) ap_dbd_open(apr_pool_t*, server_rec*);

/* release a connection acquired with ap_dbd_open */
AP_DECLARE(void) ap_dbd_close(server_rec*, ap_dbd_t*);

/* acquire a connection that will have the lifetime of a request
 * and MUST NOT be explicitly closed.  Return NULL on error.
 * This is the preferred function for most applications.
 */
AP_DECLARE(ap_dbd_t*) ap_dbd_acquire(request_rec*);

/* acquire a connection that will have the lifetime of a connection
 * and MUST NOT be explicitly closed.  Return NULL on error.
 */
AP_DECLARE(ap_dbd_t*) ap_dbd_cacquire(request_rec*);

/* Prepare a statement for use by a client module */
AP_DECLARE(void) ap_dbd_prepare(server_rec*, const char*, const char*);

/* Also export them as optional functions for modules that prefer it */
APR_DECLARE_OPTIONAL_FN(ap_dbd_t*, ap_dbd_open, (apr_pool_t*, server_rec*));
APR_DECLARE_OPTIONAL_FN(void, ap_dbd_close, (server_rec*, ap_dbd_t*));
APR_DECLARE_OPTIONAL_FN(ap_dbd_t*, ap_dbd_acquire, (request_rec*));
APR_DECLARE_OPTIONAL_FN(ap_dbd_t*, ap_dbd_cacquire, (conn_rec*));
APR_DECLARE_OPTIONAL_FN(void, ap_dbd_prepare, (server_rec*, const char*, const char*));
</code></pre></div>
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<h2><a name="prepared" id="prepared">SQL Prepared Statements</a></h2>
    <p><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_dbd.html">mod_dbd</a></code> supports SQL prepared statements on behalf
    of modules that may wish to use them.  Each prepared statement
    must be assigned a name (label), and they are stored in a hash:
    the <code>prepared</code> field of an <code>ap_dbd_t</code>.
    Hash entries are of type <code>apr_dbd_prepared_t</code>
    and can be used in any of the apr_dbd prepared statement
    SQL query or select commands.</p>

    <p>It is up to dbd user modules to use the prepared statements
    and document what statements can be specified in httpd.conf,
    or to provide their own directives and use <code>ap_dbd_prepare</code>.</p>
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<h2><a name="security" id="security">SECURITY WARNING</a></h2>

    <p>Any web/database application needs to secure itself against SQL
    injection attacks.  In most cases, Apache DBD is safe, because
    applications use prepared statements, and untrusted inputs are
    only ever used as data.  Of course, if you use it via third-party
    modules, you should ascertain what precautions they may require.</p>
    <p>However, the <var>FreeTDS</var> driver is inherently
    <strong>unsafe</strong>.  The underlying library doesn't support
    prepared statements, so the driver emulates them, and the
    untrusted input is merged into the SQL statement.</p>
    <p>It can be made safe by <em>untainting</em> all inputs:
    a process inspired by Perl's taint checking.  Each input
    is matched against a regexp, and only the match is used,
    according to the Perl idiom:</p>
    <div class="example"><pre><code>  $untrusted =~ /([a-z]+)/;
  $trusted = $1;</code></pre></div>
    <p>To use this, the untainting regexps must be included in the
    prepared statements configured.  The regexp follows immediately
    after the % in the prepared statement, and is enclosed in
    curly brackets {}.  For example, if your application expects
    alphanumeric input, you can use:</p>
    <div class="example"><p><code>
       <code>"SELECT foo FROM bar WHERE input = %s"</code>
    </code></p></div>
    <p>with other drivers, and suffer nothing worse than a failed query.
    But with FreeTDS you'd need:</p>
    <div class="example"><p><code>
       <code>"SELECT foo FROM bar WHERE input = %{([A-Za-z0-9]+)}s"</code>
    </code></p></div>
    <p>Now anything that doesn't match the regexp's $1 match is
    discarded, so the statement is safe.</p>
    <p>An alternative to this may be the third-party ODBC driver,
    which offers the security of genuine prepared statements.</p>
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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="DBDExptime" id="DBDExptime">DBDExptime</a> <a name="dbdexptime" id="dbdexptime">Directive</a></h2>
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<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Keepalive time for idle connections</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>DBDExptime <var>time-in-seconds</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>DBDExptime 300</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_dbd</td></tr>
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    <p>Set the time to keep idle connections alive when the number
    of connections specified in DBDKeep has been exceeded (threaded
    platforms only).</p>

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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="DBDKeep" id="DBDKeep">DBDKeep</a> <a name="dbdkeep" id="dbdkeep">Directive</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Maximum sustained number of connections</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>DBDKeep <var>number</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>DBDKeep 2</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_dbd</td></tr>
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    <p>Set the maximum number of connections per process to be
    sustained, other than for handling peak demand (threaded
    platforms only).</p>

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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="DBDMax" id="DBDMax">DBDMax</a> <a name="dbdmax" id="dbdmax">Directive</a></h2>
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<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Maximum number of connections</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>DBDMax <var>number</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>DBDMax 10</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_dbd</td></tr>
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    <p>Set the hard maximum number of connections per process
    (threaded platforms only).</p>

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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="DBDMin" id="DBDMin">DBDMin</a> <a name="dbdmin" id="dbdmin">Directive</a></h2>
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<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Minimum number of connections</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>DBDMin <var>number</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>DBDMin 1</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_dbd</td></tr>
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    <p>Set the minimum number of connections per process (threaded
    platforms only).</p>

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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="DBDParams" id="DBDParams">DBDParams</a> <a name="dbdparams" id="dbdparams">Directive</a></h2>
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<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Parameters for database connection</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>DBDParams
<var>param1</var>=<var>value1</var>[,<var>param2</var>=<var>value2</var>]</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_dbd</td></tr>
</table>
    <p>As required by the underlying driver.  Typically this will be
    used to pass whatever cannot be defaulted amongst username,
    password, database name, hostname and port number for connection.</p>
    <p>Connection string parameters for current drivers include:</p>
    <dl>
    <dt>FreeTDS (for MSSQL and SyBase - see SECURITY note)</dt>
    <dd>username, password, appname, dbname, host, charset, lang, server</dd>
    <dt>MySQL</dt>
    <dd>host, port, user, pass, dbname, sock, flags, fldsz, group, reconnect</dd> 
    <dt>ODBC</dt>
    <dd>datasource, user, password, connect, ctimeout, stimeout, access, txmode, bufsize</dd>
    <dt>Oracle</dt>
    <dd>user, pass, dbname, server</dd> 
    <dt>PostgreSQL</dt>
    <dd>The connection string is passed straight through to <code>PQconnectdb</code></dd>
    <dt>SQLite2</dt>
    <dd>The connection string is split on a colon, and <code>part1:part2</code> is used as <code>sqlite_open(part1, atoi(part2), NULL)</code></dd>
    <dt>SQLite3</dt>
    <dd>The connection string is passed straight through to <code>sqlite3_open</code></dd>
    </dl>

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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="DBDPersist" id="DBDPersist">DBDPersist</a> <a name="dbdpersist" id="dbdpersist">Directive</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Whether to use persistent connections</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>DBDPersist On|Off</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_dbd</td></tr>
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    <p>If set to Off, persistent and pooled connections are disabled.
    A new database connection is opened when requested by a client,
    and closed immediately on release.  This option is for debugging
    and low-usage servers.</p>

    <p>The default is to enable a pool of persistent connections
    (or a single LAMP-style persistent connection in the case of a
    non-threaded server), and should almost always be used in operation.</p>

    <p>Prior to version 2.2.2, this directive accepted only the values
    <code>0</code> and <code>1</code> instead of <code>Off</code> and
    <code>On</code>, respectively.</p>

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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="DBDPrepareSQL" id="DBDPrepareSQL">DBDPrepareSQL</a> <a name="dbdpreparesql" id="dbdpreparesql">Directive</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Define an SQL prepared statement</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>DBDPrepareSQL <var>"SQL statement"</var> <var>label</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_dbd</td></tr>
</table>
    <p>For modules such as authentication that repeatedly use a
    single SQL statement, optimum performance is achieved by preparing
    the statement at startup rather than every time it is used.
    This directive prepares an SQL statement and assigns it a label.</p>

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<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Specify an SQL driver</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>DBDriver <var>name</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_dbd</td></tr>
</table>
    <p>Selects an apr_dbd driver by name.  The driver must be installed
    on your system (on most systems, it will be a shared object or dll).
    For example, <code>DBDriver mysql</code> will select the MySQL
    driver in apr_dbd_mysql.so.</p>

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