On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 11:13:10AM +0100, Andreas Mahling wrote: > I'm in the process to configure a cgit instance for my private network at > home. > Because my internet router will be the host for git and cgit, I'm > looking for a ligthweight setup. > I would like to use busybox httpd as webserver, which has a very low > footprint and supports cgi, but no other fancy bells and whistles, > especially no url rewrite. > > It works in principle, but there is a problem with the URLs generated > by cgit: they seem always containing a trailing slash. This leads to a > 404 error thrown by httpd. If I manually remove the slash, everyting > is OK. > > Example given: > http://git/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/linuxadmin.git/ -> 404 > http://git/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/linuxadmin.git -> Page ist shown > > Is there a way to tell cgit to give up the trailing slash? I'm running > cgit-1.2.3-r3 on Alpine 3.17.2
I don't think it's possible to change that behaviour without patching CGit. Given how URLs are constructed, it looks a bit complicated to fix in all cases, but you could remove the setting of "virtual_root" in cmd_main() to force using query parameters instead of virtual paths in URLs. Can you tell where the 404 is generated? Is this a case of httpd returning an error when it shouldn't, or is it a behaviour difference that CGit isn't handling correctly - maybe other CGI hosts strip trailing slashes before passing a path to CGit but httpd doesn't?
