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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/plugins/404.mdwn | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/plugins/404.mdwn b/doc/plugins/404.mdwn index ab6ac4dea..db86a13b8 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/404.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/404.mdwn @@ -5,15 +5,16 @@ This plugin lets you use the IkiWiki CGI script as an Apache 404 handler, to give the behaviour of various other wiki engines where visiting a nonexistent page provides you with a link to create it. -To achieve this, put something like this in the wiki's Apache configuration -file: +To enable the 404 handler you need to: - ErrorDocument 404 /ikiwiki.cgi +1. Edit your `.setup` file and add `404` and `goto` to the `add_plugins` line. +2. Add a 404 error document handler in your Apache configuration: -(The path here needs to be whatever the path is to the ikiwiki.cgi from -the root of your web server.) + `ErrorDocument 404 /url/path/to/ikiwiki.cgi` -This plugin might also be useful on some non-Apache web servers, if they provide the + Where `/url/path/to` is the path portion of the URL to the `ikiwiki.cgi` binary. + +This plugin might also be useful on non-Apache web servers, if they provide the `REDIRECT_STATUS` and `REDIRECT_URL` environment variables to their 404 handlers. `REDIRECT_STATUS` should be `404` and `REDIRECT_URL` should be the path part of the URL (for instance it would be `/plugins/404/` if this page was missing). |