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&lt;h1&gt;Context&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;section class=&quot;ls-spacer-small-bottom&quot;&gt;In LiteSpeed Web Server terminology, a &quot;context&quot; 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, &quot;/&quot; is the root context mapped to the
document root of a website. &quot;/cgi-bin/&quot; 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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  &lt;li&gt;To make a file system outside of the document root accessible.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;To block access to certain resources.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;To setup user-level authentication for certain resources.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;To create mount points for external applications.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;To redirect requests to another location.&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;h2 id=&quot;top&quot;&gt;Table of Contents&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;section class=&quot;toc&quot;&gt;&lt;section class=&quot;toc-row&quot;&gt;&lt;header&gt;Context Attributes&lt;/header&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;#ctxType&quot;&gt;Context Type&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/section&gt;
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&lt;section&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;helpitem&quot;&gt;&lt;article class=&quot;ls-helpitem&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;header id=&quot;ctxType&quot;&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Context Type&lt;span class=&quot;ls-permlink&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#ctxType&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#top&quot;&gt;&amp;#8657;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/header&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Description&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;p&gt;The type of context created determines it's usage.:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Static&lt;/b&gt; context can be used to map a URI to a directory either outside document root or within it.&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Java Web App&lt;/b&gt; context is used to automatically import a predefined Java Application in an AJPv13 compilant Java servlet engine.&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Servlet&lt;/b&gt; context is used to import a specific servlet under a web application.&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Fast CGI&lt;/b&gt; context is a mount point of Fast CGI application.&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;LiteSpeed SAPI&lt;/b&gt; context can be used to associate a URI with an LSAPI application.&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Proxy&lt;/b&gt; context enables this virtual host to serve as a transparant reverse proxy server to an external web server or application server.&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;CGI&lt;/b&gt; context can be used to specify a directory only contains CGI scripts.&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Load Balancer&lt;/b&gt; context can be used to assign a different cluster for that context.&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Redirect&lt;/b&gt; context can set up an internal or external redirect URI.&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;App Server&lt;/b&gt; context is used for Rack/Rails, WSGI, or Node.js applications.&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Rack/Rails&lt;/b&gt; context is specifically used for Rack/Rails applications. It is recommended to configure Rack/Rails applications as an &lt;b&gt;App Server&lt;/b&gt; context instead.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/article&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
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