Re: gitweb: in-page errors don't work with mod_perl

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Jürgen Kreileder wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 23:32, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Jürgen Kreileder wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 21:13, Jürgen Kreileder <jk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 17:54, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> 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
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