Magnus, this is terrific information, thank you for looking into this. I'm trying to follow your example - you use ApacheFixer to make a "TestingFixed" class, but never use that class anywhere else. Do you mean for the lines in dispatch.* to use "TestingFixed" instead of "Testing"?
I'm trying to use this to resolve my problems as we speak, Eric On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Magnus Holm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This "bug" is actually Apache's fault. The problem occurs when you use > mod_rewrite to hide that you're using dispatch.cgi. When you use > "RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.cgi" the following happens: > > * SCRIPT_NAME is set to /dispatch.cgi (since that's the actual script > which gets ran) > * REDIRECT_SCRIPT_NAME is set to whatever SCRIPT_NAME was before > * PATH_INFO is emptied > > I've also tested this on 1.5 and it has the same problem. However, if > you use server/fastcgi.rb (not Rack as I've been testing with) you can > set the ENV['FORCE_ROOT'] to 1 and it will re-set SCRIPT_NAME and > PATH_INFO using REQUEST_URI, which will (partly) solve the problem. > > Right now, we have no FORCE_ROOT in Rack, but here's a simple fix: > > * Change .htaccess to "RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.cgi/$1" (You might > need to drop to slash). > * Add a middleware which sets SCRIPT_NAME to REDIRECT_SCRIPT_NAME > (http://pastie.org/235062) > > This isn't really our problem, but rather Apache (which should be able > to alias CGI-scripts with the correct headers). It probably won't > happen, so I guess we have to add some nasty hacks into Rack. > > I haven't tried this on any other servers (LightTPD/Nginx), but as > long as there is no URL-rewriting (I know LightTPD can do it with > FastCGI) it's probably no problem (maybe not even with, if it's smart > enough). > > Here is a simple app which shows @env (and works on both 1.5 and 2.0): > http://pastie.org/235078. It would be great if you could test it on > different setups and see which requires special treatment. Check out > the Rack-spec for how the variables should be set: > http://rack.rubyforge.org/doc/files/SPEC.html > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Eric Mill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Bluebie -- I tried doing this with FastCGI with the same settings >> (changed .htaccess to point to dispatch.fcgi, changed dispatch file to >> use Rack::Handler::FastCGI.run, got the exact same results. FastCGI >> will also suffer from these bugs. >> >> -- Eric >> >> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Bluebie, Jenna >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > We are talking about cgi here, not fast cgi. Specifically CGI's >> > interactions >> > with mod_rewrite in apache. >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Camping-list mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Camping-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list > > > > -- > Magnus Holm > _______________________________________________ > Camping-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list > _______________________________________________ Camping-list mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list
