Re: gitweb: in-page errors don't work with mod_perl
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
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- Nov 29, 2011, 00:49 UTC
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Jürgen Kreileder wrote:
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> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 23:32, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote: >> Jürgen Kreileder wrote: >>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 21:13, Jürgen Kreileder <jk@blackdown.de> wrote: >>>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 17:54, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> [...] >>>>> >>>>> The configuration is very similar. Perhaps that is the difference between >>>>> Apache 2.0.x (mine) and Apache 2.2.x (yours). >>>>> >>>>> Does adding `$r->err_headers_out();` before `$r->status(200);` helps? >>>>> I'm grasping at straws here. mod_perl documentation is not very helpful. >>>> >>>> Doesn't help unfortunately. It's hard to find any information about >>>> this on the net (except for your comment on stackoverflow :). >>>> >>>> The only way to get mod_perl to return a custom error message with >>>> correct status code I've found so far is $r->custom_response($status, >>>> $msg). Unfortunately mod_perl then ignores headers I set, e.g. >>>> content-type. >>> >>> I guess this explains it: >>> http://foertsch.name/ModPerl-Tricks/custom-content_type-with-custom_response.shtml >>> Requires quite some restructuring to gitweb.perl. >> >> I'm coming close to declaring that ModPerl::Registry is horribly broken >> with respect to error pages created by CGI, and say that we don't support >> it, removing mod_perl configuration examples from gitweb documentation. > > Makes sense. The benefits of mod_perl are properly small for gitweb anyway.
Anyway you can run gitweb with FastCGI (supposedly - I don't know if it was tested), which provides the same (or most of the) advantages that mod_perl gives, without the troubles. Just rename gitweb.cgi to gitweb.fcgi and configure web server appropriately (and have FCGI Perl module installed).
-- Jakub Narebski Poland