# Behind a Proxy

In some situations, you might need to use a **proxy** server like Traefik or Nginx with a configuration that adds an extra path prefix that is not seen by your application.

In these cases you can use `root_path` to configure your application.

The `root_path` is a mechanism provided by the ASGI specification (that FastAPI is built on, through Starlette).

The `root_path` is used to handle these specific cases.

* It takes each **request** that comes to your application.
* It can then do something to that **request** or run any needed code.
* Then it passes the **request** to be processed by the rest of the application (by some *path operation*).
* It then takes the **response** generated by the application (by some *path operation*).
* It can do something to that **response** or run any needed code.

## Separating tests

In a real application, you probably would have your tests in a different file.

And your **FastAPI** application might also be composed of several files/modules, etc.

                    "responses": {
                        "200": {
                            "description": "Successful Response",
                            "content": {
                                "application/json": {
                                    "schema": {"$ref": "#/components/schemas/Token"}
                                }
                            },
                        },
                        "422": {

<font color="#4E9A06">INFO</font>:     Started server process [<font color="#06989A">2306215</font>]
<font color="#4E9A06">INFO</font>:     Waiting for application startup.
<font color="#4E9A06">INFO</font>:     Application startup complete.
<font color="#4E9A06">INFO</font>:     Uvicorn running on <b>http://0.0.0.0:8000</b> (Press CTRL+C to quit)
```

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That would work for most of the cases. 😎

                            "description": "Successful Response",
                            "content": {"application/json": {"schema": {}}},
                        },
                        "422": {
                            "description": "Validation Error",
                            "content": {
                                "application/json": {
                                    "schema": {

                            "description": "Successful Response",
                            "content": {"application/json": {"schema": {}}},
                        },
                        "422": {
                            "description": "Validation Error",
                            "content": {
                                "application/json": {
                                    "schema": {

                            "description": "Successful Response",
                            "content": {"application/json": {"schema": {}}},
                        },
                        "422": {
                            "description": "Validation Error",
                            "content": {
                                "application/json": {
                                    "schema": {

!!! warning "注意"
    *path operation*で複数の`Form`パラメータを宣言することができますが、JSONとして受け取ることを期待している`Body`フィールドを宣言することはできません。なぜなら、リクエストは`application/json`の代わりに`application/x-www-form-urlencoded`を使ってボディをエンコードするからです。

    これは **FastAPI**の制限ではなく、HTTPプロトコルの一部です。

## まとめ

                            "description": "Successful Response",
                            "content": {"application/json": {"schema": {}}},
                        },
                        "422": {
                            "description": "Validation Error",
                            "content": {
                                "application/json": {
                                    "schema": {