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# Configuration

Flower can be configured from the command line:

    $ flower --auto_refresh=False

Or, using `flowerconfig.py` configuration file:

    # Broker settings
    BROKER_URL = 'amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672//'

    # RabbitMQ management api
    broker_api = 'http://guest:guest@localhost:15672/api/'

    # Enable debug logging
    logging = 'DEBUG'

Options passed through the command line have precedence over the options defined in the configuration file.

Note

`flowerconfig.py` file should be available on the Python path.

## Options

Standard Celery configuration settings can be overridden in the configuration file. See Celery Configuration reference for a complete listing of all the available settings, and their default values.

Celery command line options also can be passed to Flower. For example the –broker sets the default broker url:

    $ flower --broker=amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672//

For a full list of options see:

    $ celery --help

- address
- auth
- auto_refresh
- basic_auth
- broker_api
- certfile
- db
- debug
- inspect
- inspect_timeout
- keyfile
- max_tasks
- persistent
- port
- url_prefix
- xheaders

### address

Run the http server on a given address

### auth

Enables Google OpenID authentication. auth is a regexp of emails to grant access. For more info see Google OpenID

### auto_refresh

Refresh dashboards automatically (by default, auto_refresh=True)

### basic_auth

Enables HTTP Basic authentication. basic_auth is a comma separated list of username:passworrd. See HTTP Basic Authentication for more info.

### broker_api

Flower uses RabbitMQ Managment Plugin to get info about queues. broker_api is a URL of RabbitMQ HTTP API including user credentials.

    $ flower --broker_api=http://username:password@rabbitmq-server-name:15672/api/

Note

By default the managment plugin is not enabled. To enable it run:

    $ rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management

### certfile

A path to SSL certificate file

### db

A database file to use if persistent mode is enabled (by default, db=flower.db)

### debug

Enable the debug mode (by default, debug=False)

### inspect

Enable inspecting running workers (by default, inspect=True).

### inspect_timeout

Sets worker inspect timeout (by default, inspect_timeout=10000 in milliseconds)

### keyfile

A path to SSL key file

### max_tasks

Maximum number of tasks to keep in memory (by default, max_tasks=10000)

### persistent

Enable persistent mode. If the persistent mode is enabled Flower saves the current state and reloads on restart (by default, persistent=False)

### port

Run the http server on a given port (by default, port=5555)

### url_prefix

Enables deploying Flower on non-root URL.

For example to access Flower on http://example.com/flower run it with:

    $ flower --url_prefix=flower

And use the following nginx configuration:

    server {
        listen 80;
        server_name example.com;

        location /flower/ {
            rewrite ^/flower/(.*)$ /$1 break;
            proxy_pass http://example.com:5555;
            proxy_set_header Host $host;
        }

    }

### xheaders

Enable support of X-Real-Ip and X-Scheme headers (by default, xheaders=False)

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