[Cc: add the mailing list back in] On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 01:01:50PM +0100, Andreas Mahling wrote: > 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.
To disable that feature you would have the patch the CGit source and build your own cgit binary. There is code in cmd_main() which automatically calculates the virtual root from other environment variables if they are provided (and it seems that httpd does provide this detail to CGI scripts). > 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? > >
