diff --git a/src/main/resources/sam.conf b/src/main/resources/sam.conf
index 80497079b9..893cc57b35 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/sam.conf
+++ b/src/main/resources/sam.conf
@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@ akka {
     server {
       idle-timeout = 180 s
       request-timeout = 60 s
+      parsing {
+        # Supresses akka http header warnings such as Illegal header: Illegal 'x-forwarded-host'
+        # These warnings can sometimes come from apache and akka disagreeing on web standards
+        # Takes an array that can be set with seperate env vars in the format: IGNORE_ILLEGAL_HEADERS.0, IGNORE_ILLEGAL_HEADERS.1, etc.
+        ignore-illegal-header-for = ${?IGNORE_ILLEGAL_HEADERS}
+      }
     }
     host-connection-pool {
       max-open-requests = 16384