sorry, I've missed sending to the list address I wrote a script test.sh which prints the environment. When called as http://git/cgi-bin/test.sh/xyz PATH_INFO ist set to '/xyz' When called as http://git/cgi-bin/test.sh/xyz/ 404 is thrown. So the problem seems to be caused by httpd
hello John, It seems the 404 is generated by httpd, I think because the url ends with a slash httpd treats the part after cgit.cgi not as PATH_INFO (as it should) but as a directory. So this seems more a fault of httpd to me. Sorry, but I don't understand how to put into QUERY_STRING what now goes into PATH_INFO. Do you mean the virtual-root option in cgitrc? It is already commented out in my setup, but cgit builds the url with PATH_INFO part anyway. best regards Andreas Am Mo., 6. März 2023 um 12:41 Uhr schrieb John Keeping <[email protected]>: > > 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? >
