When AllowEncodedSlashes is Off (the default setting), URLs containing
%2f are replied with a 404 error without calling the CGI. To (maybe)
prevent others debugging this issue add a hint with the solution.
---
 Documentation/public-inbox.cgi.pod | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/public-inbox.cgi.pod 
b/Documentation/public-inbox.cgi.pod
index 71f8a6f5f696..369813d09b91 100644
--- a/Documentation/public-inbox.cgi.pod
+++ b/Documentation/public-inbox.cgi.pod
@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ CGI with Perl is slow due to code loading overhead and web 
servers lack
 the scheduling fairness of L<public-inbox-httpd(1)> for handling git
 clones and streaming large mbox downloads.
 
+=head1 COMPATIBILITY NOTE
+
+When using the CGI with Apache, make sure to set AllowEncodedSlashes to On, as
+public-inbox makes heavy use of encoded slashes.
+
 =head1 CONTACT
 
 Feedback welcome via plain-text mail to L<mailto:[email protected]>
-- 
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