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Is it possible to disable Keep-Alive on a directory basis?

For example, I have an API that runs on something like domain.com/api/

It'd be nice if KeepAlive was not used on any requests in the /api/ directory.

Update/Solution:

SetEnvIf Request_URI /api/ nokeepalive

Source: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/env.html

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This seems to be a recent feature of Apache HTTPD, but it works.

To disable (turn off) Keep-Alive for a specific directory, use:

SetEnvIf Request_URI /myDir/ nokeepalive

Add this to your httpd.conf or .htaccess file!

Source: Environment Variables in Apache - Special Purpose Environment Variables - nokeepalive.

acdcjunior
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There are 2 ways I found: 1. As described by acdcjunior you can do it with SetEnvIf inside your Virtual host or main configuration SetEnvIf Request_URI /myDir/ nokeepalive 2. You can just set the Connection header to close Header set Connection "close"

I prefer the second option due to the fact that this will allow the entire configuration to be under the

Liron Cohen
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No! the context for the keep-alive directive is: server config, virtual host

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