Lighttpd

This occurs when mapping any URL ending in "/" to FastCGI. The same mapping with the ending "/" removed works correctly.

-- mgood

This causes problems for trac, when it is sitting in the root directory. See trac bug 2418.

-- teg

Any idea why this has not been checked in? It doesn't look hackish, given we also port it to all places using the same code.

FWIW, the above patch fixes this bug for mod_scgi as well (in my case, tested with DrProject).

-- shot

I've been hit by the same problem when trying to use Moin as the root URI.

There is no straightforward solution to this, as there is no generic pattern for splitting the URI in SCRIPT_NAME and PATH_INFO. In some cases you want the whole URI in PATH_INFO, in some other cases you want SCRIPT_NAME to be set, and you could imagine thousands of other cases.

I'd like this to be fixed by a URI => PATH_INFO mapping, with a new configuration variable. The result could look like this:

fastcgi.path_info = (
"^/(admin|stats)/(.*)" => ("/$1", "/$2"),
"^(.*)$" => ("", "$1"),
)

This way /admin/foo would lead to SCRIPT_NAME="/admin" and PATH_INFO="/foo", while /bar would lead to SCRIPT_NAME="" and PATH_INFO="/bar".

-- joss

The problem is still present on 1.4.16...

-- lindevel

And still in 1.4.18, it seems...

-- lindevel

This patch works great for me. I couldn't get a Mercurial repository (hgwebdir cgi script) working on my web server without it.

Please include it!

-- schnouki

this problem is fixed in 1.5.0, i'm working out a solution to this for 1.4.x

r2421 fixed the problem for me. Thanks!