[rt-users] mason_handler.fcgi and ErrorDocument 404

[Jesse Vincent]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 10:45:48PM +0100, holland holland wrote:
> Hello Jesse,
> 
> "More recent versions of RT have a 404 handler built in"
> 
> Would you please point me where in the code this was implemented.

You're looking for a top-level dhandler. I don't recall if it's in 3.6.6
or we've built it into 3.7.x for release in RT 3.8

> 
> Thank you,
> James
> 
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Jesse Vincent <jesse at bestpractical.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >  On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 01:24:40PM +0100, holland holland wrote:
> >  > Dear all,
> >  >
> >  > Environment:
> >  >
> >  > RT 3.6.4 & FastCGI
> >  >
> >  > I'm wondering how to is currently possible to Redirect inexistent path
> >  > to ErrorDocument 404.
> >
> >  More recent versions of RT have a 404 handler built in. What you're
> >  looking for is a top-level HTML::Mason 'dhandler'
> >
> >
> >  >
> >  > The problem only occur using FastCGI, mod_perl will follow Apache
> >  > ErrorDocument directives.
> >  >
> >  > You can try in your own environment (using FastCGI), something like
> >  > http://[your domain]/blabla.html; you will end up with:
> >  >
> >  > Could not find component for initial path '/blabla.html'
> >  > ...
> >  > ...
> >  > ...
> >  > ...
> >  >  /opt/rt3/bin/mason_handler.fcgi:78
> >  >
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > Google for "Could not find component for initial path", you will see
> >  > many people running RT with this issue.
> >  >
> >  > Someone proposed to hack the mason_handler.fcgi :
> >  >
> >  > http://groovie.org/articles/2004/12/18/fast-cgi-with-html-mason
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > This problem is not link to $WebURL , $WebBaseURL . $WebPath  not set
> >  > correctly, the very same settings work in mod_perl.
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > Maybe a Rewrite/.htaccess, pretty sure someone solved that in a neat way.
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > Thank you in advance,
> >  > James
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