* Restarts
* Replication (the number of processes running)
* Memory
* Previous steps before starting

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.

And it's also used internally when mounting sub-applications.

## Proxy with a stripped path prefix

```

</div>

### Docs Structure

The documentation uses <a href="https://www.mkdocs.org/" class="external-link" target="_blank">MkDocs</a>.

And there are extra tools/scripts in place to handle translations in `./scripts/docs.py`.

!!! tip
    You don't need to see the code in `./scripts/docs.py`, you just use it in the command line.

All the documentation is in Markdown format in the directory `./docs/en/`.

In most cases, the same tool that is used to **run the program on startup** is also used to handle automatic **restarts**.

For example, this could be handled by:

* Docker
* Kubernetes
* Docker Compose
* Docker in Swarm Mode
* Systemd
* Supervisor
* Handled internally by a cloud provider as part of their services
* Others...

## Replication - Processes and Memory

    opt raise
        dep -->> handler: Raise HTTPException
        handler -->> client: HTTP error response
        dep -->> dep: Raise other exception
    end
    dep ->> operation: Run dependency, e.g. DB session
    opt raise
        operation -->> dep: Raise HTTPException
        dep -->> handler: Auto forward exception
        handler -->> client: HTTP error response

## Accessing the request body in an exception handler

!!! tip
    To solve this same problem, it's probably a lot easier to use the `body` in a custom handler for `RequestValidationError` ([Handling Errors](../tutorial/handling-errors.md#use-the-requestvalidationerror-body){.internal-link target=_blank}).

def test_depend_err_handler():
    """
    Verify that it is possible to write custom WebSocket middleware to catch errors
    """

    async def custom_handler(websocket: WebSocket, exc: CustomError) -> None:
        await websocket.close(1002, "foo")

    myapp = make_app(exception_handlers={CustomError: custom_handler})
    client = TestClient(myapp)

def _get_client_tag(client_id: Optional[str] = Query(None)) -> Optional[str]:
    if client_id is None:
        return None
    return f"{client_id}_tag"


@app.get("/foo")
def foo_handler(
    client_key: str = Depends(_get_client_key),
    client_tag: Optional[str] = Depends(_get_client_tag),
):
    return {"client_id": client_key, "client_tag": client_tag}


client = TestClient(app)

        * [Override the default exception handlers](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/handling-errors/#override-the-default-exception-handlers).
        * [Re-use **FastAPI's** exception handlers](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/handling-errors/#re-use-fastapis-exception-handlers).
    * PR [#273](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/273).

{!../../../docs_src/custom_request_and_route/tutorial001.py!}
```

### ✍ 🛃 `GzipRoute` 🎓

⏭, 👥 ✍ 🛃 🏿 `fastapi.routing.APIRoute` 👈 🔜 ⚒ ⚙️ `GzipRequest`.

👉 🕰, ⚫️ 🔜 📁 👩‍🔬 `APIRoute.get_route_handler()`.

👉 👩‍🔬 📨 🔢. & 👈 🔢 ⚫️❔ 🔜 📨 📨 & 📨 📨.

📥 👥 ⚙️ ⚫️ ✍ `GzipRequest` ⚪️➡️ ⏮️ 📨.

```Python hl_lines="18-26"
{!../../../docs_src/custom_request_and_route/tutorial001.py!}
```