This module provides a way for apache to directly interact with a grpc backend service. Using this you can add a webinterface to your grpc service without any additional libraries or complex configuration.

In order to build mod_grpcbackend on your system you need to install some required packages:

• build-essential
• protoc
• libprotobuf
• libgrpc++
• apache2-dev

If you have installed all required software checkout this repository and run

make

make install

and add the following line somewhere in your apache config:

LoadModule grpcbackend_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_grpcbackend.so

Currently mod_grpcbackend provides only 4 configuration directives, but only 2 are required for a working configuration. In addition to enabling grpcbackend using GrpcEnabled you need to set the handler to grpcbackend if you want a file to get handled by grpcbackend. See SetHandler and AddHandler for more information.

If you want a directory to be handled by a grpc backend, you need to set this directive to on.

This allows you to set the grpc service host and port apache will forward your requests to.

This optional directive allows you to set a timeout in milliseconds for connecting to your backend service.

This optional directive allows you to set a timeout in milliseconds for each call to your backend service.