From 0b0ce854d0cfa716ed5af7830884ca04358b230b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/" Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 23:01:36 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] workaround --- doc/bugs/404_plugin_and_lighttpd.mdwn | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/bugs/404_plugin_and_lighttpd.mdwn b/doc/bugs/404_plugin_and_lighttpd.mdwn index e478d98c3..8508d0dcd 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/404_plugin_and_lighttpd.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/404_plugin_and_lighttpd.mdwn @@ -1,5 +1,15 @@ Lighttpd apparently sets REDIRECT_STATUS=200 for the server.error-handler-404 page. This breaks the [[plugins/404]] plugin which checks this variable for 404 before processing the URI. It also doesn't seem to set REDIRECT_URL. +> For what it's worth, the first half is . +> One workaround would be to make this script your 404 handler: +> +> #!/bin/sh +> REDIRECT_STATUS=404; export REDIRECT_STATUS +> REDIRECT_URL="$SERVER_NAME$REQUEST_URI"; export REDIRECT_URL +> exec /path/to/your/ikiwiki.cgi "$@" +> +> --[[smcv]] + I was able to fix my server to check the REQUEST_URI for ikiwiki.cgi and to continue processing if it was not found, passing $ENV{SEVER_NAME} . $ENV{REQUEST_URI} as the first parameter to cgi_page_from_404. However, my perl is terrible and I just made it work rather than figuring out exactly what to do to get it to work on both lighttpd and apache. This is with lighttpd 1.4.19 on Debian.