Re: How to apply apache directives to pyblosxom bog files?

Chris G <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:19:28 +0100
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.pyblosxom.user
Message-ID	<20071010081928.GG68453@newred>
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 09:48:30PM -0400, Blake Winton wrote:
> will wrote:
> >>>> I suspect that the answer will depend on your setup.
> >>> Even so how do I apply an AddCharset directive?  What suffix do I use?
> >>> .py possibly?
> >> I've gone the PyBlosxom route, and added a file named 
> >> "content_type.html" in my html flavour, containing the line:
> >> application/xml;charset=utf-8
> >> and it all seems to work for me...
>  > Oh, that's kind of wild.  That's something we should add to the
>  > documentation...  but I have no idea where a good place for that would
>  > be.
> 
> In the Flavor section, with a cross-link somewhere?  In the index?  In 
> the mailing list archives?  ;)  Seriously, yeah, we should add that to 
> the docs.  Chris, where did you look first to try and figure it out?
> 
The whole problem is that *absolutely regardless* of what the HTML
says (whether static or, as in pyblosxom, dynamically generated) the
browser overrides it.

My HTML from pyblosxom has:-

    <head>
       <title>Chris Info</title>
       <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://home.isbd.net/css/infowiki.css" type="text/css">
       <link rel="alternate" type="application/xml" title="RSS" href="/blog/rss2.xml">
       <link rel="top" href="/" title="pyblosxom.sourceforge.net">
       <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
    </head>

in all the headers but when served by the apache server in Fedora 7 it
defaults to UTF-8.  I.e. if I issue the command "curl -I
http://home.isbd.net/cgi-bin/pyblosxom.cgi" the result is:-

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:12:14 GMT
    Server: Apache/2.2.6 (Fedora)
    Content-Length: 2990
    Connection: close
    Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

The setting in the HTML header is *always* overridden by the server
setting set by:-

    AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

in the httpd.conf file.


I've finally got what I want by adding (to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf):-

    <Directory /var/www/cgi-bin>
        AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1
    </Directory>

This of course sets all CGI generated HTML to be ISO-8859-1 which is
OK for the moment.  If I want to be more specific about pyblosxom CGI
then I could probably use a <Location> directive.

Whatever, faffing about with the generated headers in the HTML has no
effect at all when apache is installed with what appears to be the
default httpd.conf file nowadays.

-- 
Chris Green

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