INSTALL

$Id: INSTALL,v 1.6 2006/01/28 19:36:33 dembol Exp $

		 mod_cband - A per-user, per-virtualhost and per-destination bandwidth
			    limiter for the Apache HTTP Server Version 2



INSTALLATION
============

Prerequisites

* Apache 2.0.54 - http://www.apache.org/
Other versions may work but have not been tested


Building

If you have got the apxs2 (APache eXtenSion tool) tool installed, write the following commands to build module:

$ wget http://cband.linux.pl/download/mod-cband-0.9.7.5.tgz
$ tar xzvf mod-cband-0.9.7.5.tgz
$ cd mod-cband-0.9.7.5
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

Otherwise, you must rebuild your Apache from source with something like this:

configure --add-module=../mod-cband/mod_cband.c --enable-shared=cband --enable-module=so


CONFIGURATION
=============

Configuration is very simple, you must write only several
lines. First, you must add following command to the main config file
to load mod_cband module. The path to mod_cband.so depends on your
apache installation.

LoadModule cband_module		modules/mod_cband.so

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a) per-virtualhost bandwidth limiting configuration

Next, you may define virtualhosts bandwidth limits, URL locations and
path to the scoreboard file for individual virtualhosts:

# specify default 'bandwidth exceeded' location
CBandDefaultExceededURL	http://haha.org/bandwidth_exceeded.html

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /var/www/xyz.org/
    ServerName xyz.org
    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/xyz.org.access combined
    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/xyz.org.access.error
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteOptions inherit

    # 100MB virtualhost bandwidth limit
    CBandLimit 100000

    # redirect to http://abc.org/bandwidth_exceeded.html
    # when the limit has been reached
    CBandExceededURL http://abc.org/bandwidth_exceeded.html

    # virtualhost's scoreboard file
    CBandScoreboard /var/run/apache2/xyz.org.scoreboard
    
    # a period of time after which the scoreboard will be cleared (1 week) (only in >=0.9.5-rc2)
    CBandPeriod 1W
</VirtualHost>

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b) per-user bandwidth limiting configuration (only in >=0.9.1 versions)
In >=0.9.1 versions you can define limits for users and assign virtualhosts to them

# define user 'dembol'
<CBandUser dembol>
    # 200MB bandwidth limit for user 'dembol'
    CBandUserLimit 200000

    # redirect to http://abc.org/bandwidth_exceeded.html
    # when the limit has been reached
    CBandUserExceededURL http://abc.org/bandwidth_exceeded.html

    # user's scoreboard file
    CBandUserScoreboard /var/run/apache2/dembol.scoreboard
    
    # a period of time after which the scoreboard will be cleared (4 days) (only in >=0.9.5-rc2)
    CBandUserPeriod 4D
</CBandUser>

# assign virtualhost 'xyz.org' to user 'dembol'
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName xyz.org
    # Specify virtualhost owner
    CBandUser dembol
    
</VirtualHost>

# assign virtualhost 'aga.org' to user 'dembol'
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName aga.org
    # Specify virtualhost owner
    CBandUser dembol
</VirtualHost>

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c) per-user and per-virtualhost bandwidth limiting configuration (only in >=0.9.1 versions)
In >=0.9.1 versions you can also mix per-user and per-virtualhost bandwidth limiting techniques

# define user 'dembol'
<CBandUser dembol>
    # 200MB bandwidth limit for user 'dembol'
    CBandUserLimit 200000

    # redirect to http://abc.org/bandwidth_exceeded.html
    # when the limit has been reached
    CBandUserExceededURL http://abc.org/bandwidth_exceeded.html

    # user's scoreboard file
    CBandUserScoreboard /var/run/apache2/dembol.scoreboard
    
    # a period of time after which the scoreboard will be cleared (2 minutes) (only in >=0.9.5-rc2)
    CBandUserPeriod 2M
</CBandUser>

# assign virtualhost 'xyz.org' to user 'dembol'
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName xyz.org
    # Specify virtualhost owner
    CBandUser dembol
    
    # 100MB virtualhost bandwidth limit
    CBandLimit 100000

    # redirect to http://abc.org/bandwidth_exceeded.html
    # when the limit has been reached
    CBandExceededURL http://abc.org/bandwidth_exceeded.html

    # virtualhost's scoreboard file
    CBandScoreboard /var/run/apache2/xyz.org.scoreboard
    
    # a period of time after which the scoreboard will be cleared (3 hours) (only in >=0.9.5-rc2)
    CBandPeriod 3H
</VirtualHost>

# assign virtualhost 'aga.org' to user 'dembol'
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName aga.org
    # Specify virtualhost owner
    CBandUser dembol
</VirtualHost>

d) per-destination bandwidth limiting configuration (only in >= 0.9.5-rc1 versions)
In >= 0.9.5-rc1 you can limiting traffic to some destination classes. The destination classes 
are defined by <CBandClass class_name> section. The limits for the classes are specified by 
CBandClassLimit and CBandUserClassLimit commands

# define 'class_1'
<CBandClass class_1>
    CBandClassDst 217.172.231.67
    CBandClassDst 127/8
    CBandClassDst 192.168.0.0/24
    CBandClassDst 10.0.0.20
</CBandClass>

# define 'class_2'
<CBandClass class_2>
    CBandClassDst 192.168.100.100
    CBandClassDst 153.19/16
</CBandClass>

<CBandUser dembol>
    CBandUserLimit 1000000
    CBandUserExceededURL http://edns.pl/bandwidth_exceeded.html
    CBandUserScoreboard /home/dembol/write/user.dembol.scoreboard
    
    # 500MB limit for 'class_2'
    CBandUserClassLimit class_2 500000
</CBandUser>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ...
    CBandUser dembol
    
    # 1GB limit for 'class_1'
    CBandClassLimit class_1 1000000
    
    # a period of time after which the scoreboard will be cleared (30 minutes) (only in >=0.9.5-rc2)
    CBandPeriod 30M
</VirtualHost>


/cband-status handler
=====================

To view actual bandwidth limits, usages, users, scoreboards, add the
following lines into the config file:

<Location /cband-status>
SetHandler cband-status
</Location>

Then you can access the status page with a URL like:
http://server_name/cband-status

In >=0.9.5-rc1 versions you can also view /cband-status handler in the XML format:
http://server_name/cband-status?xml