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Configuration Error with mod_dirlisting

Added by Anonymous almost 17 years ago. Updated almost 8 years ago.

Status:
Wontfix
Priority:
Normal
Category:
mod_dirlisting
Target version:
-
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Description


index-file.names = ( "index.xhtml", "index.html", 
"/cgi-bin/dir-generator" )
server.dir-listing = "enable" 
scgi.server = (
    "/cgi-bin" =>
        (
            (
            "socket" =>
                "/path/.scgi-sock" 
            "check-local" => "disable" 
            [removed for brevity]
            )
        )
    )

It seems that whenever lighttpd gets a request for a directory without
an index file (index.xhtml or index.html), then it should call the scgi
server to get the directory listing. It does not.
I suppose I could accomplish this with rewrite-rules, but i'm concerned
that this may be an unintended bug.

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Updated by gstrauss almost 8 years ago

  • Description updated (diff)
  • Status changed from New to Wontfix
  • Assignee deleted (jan)
  • Target version deleted (1.5.0)

mod_indexfile does not have a way to know that the target URL path will be handled by a module that uses virtual paths (e.g. mod_scgi configured with "check-local" => "disable")

A workaround is to simply touch the target, in the example above ".../cgi-bin/dir-generator" so that mod_indexfile existence check succeeds.

If an full URL-path is provided as a target for index-file.names, should lighttpd unconditionally follow the path rather than checking that it exists? For a single vhost config, that seems reasonable to me. However, what if there are multiple vhosts and have a shared config for index-file.names, where one vhost might provide the cgi-bin target, but another might not and for that second vhost I want it to fall through to use mod_dirlisting?

Marking this WontFix since changing the behavior of mod_indexfile might break some existing configs, and in most cases it would be possible to use the workaround to make sure that the target dir-generator exists. I'll add a note to the wiki doc, too.

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