Re: base url includes SCRIPT_NAME, which contains too much stuff

I use a fastcgi wsgi script, ran by Lighttpd.
The script and the lighty config are in my previous mail, not sure what
else you want to know?
So if I understand what you're saying, the SCRIPT_NAME in the
environment is incorrect.

I think I might be hitting the following issue:
http://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/729

Dieter


On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:50:14 -0400
will kahn-greene <[email protected]> wrote:

> SCRIPT_NAME is an environment variable that comes from whatever
> environment you're running PyBlosxom in.  It shouldn't be the full
> path--it should be the path from which the script was executed.  It's
> a pretty standard CGI variable.
> 
> How does your environment build the SCRIPT_NAME variable?
> 
> Regardless, the documentation encourages you to set the base_url in
> your config.py file if it's not getting generated correctly for your
> situation.  I set it in my config.py file because I use mod_rewrite
> for url rewriting.
> 
> /will
> 
> 
> On 11/02/2010 09:25 AM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm using the latest 1.5 code from git
> > 
> > my flavours/html.flav/head contains:
> > 
> > <a href="$(base_url)/">$(blog_title)</a>
> > 
> > When I go to http://localhost/ this works fine: I see my blog with
> > all entries, but then, I click a link to see an individual entry,
> > say http://localhost/back_from_canada_archcon.html
> > 
> > this page shows fine, i see the entry i wanted to see,
> > but the $base_url is now the current page +'/', so the link to take
> > me home points to http://localhost/back_from_canada_archcon.html/
> > which, btw, shows the home page
> > So I can go to http://localhost/back_from_canada_archcon.html/, and
> > click on any entry to see it, say:
> > http://localhost/back_from_canada_archcon.html/arch_linux_interview_and_uzbl_article.html
> > when I'm there, the $base_url is again
> > http://localhost/back_from_canada_archcon.html/
> > 
> > To be sure, i disabled all plugins (and restarted the webserver) but
> > the issue stays the same.
> > 
> > 
> > Another thing, which is probably related: if i have enabled the tags
> > plugin (took the latest one from git)
> > and I am at http://localhost, then click on a tag-link, say:
> > http://localhost/tag/foss
> > it says:
> > "The page you are looking for is not available
> > Somehow I cannot find the page you want." and $base_url is now
> > http://localhost/tag/
> > 
> > I know I can define $base_url in config.py, but I don't see why that
> > should be needed, since my webserver does not do anything fancy like
> > url rewriting, pyblosxom should be able to get the correct base_url
> > by itself right?
> > 
> > so I checked the code, more specifically class PyBlosxom ,
> > function initialize(), where I see SCRIPT_NAME from the http
> > environment is stored in the base_url.
> > 
> > And SCRIPT_NAME, when visiting
> > http://localhost/back_from_canada_archcon.html
> > is:
> > /back_from_canada_archcon.html/
> > 
> > Is this normal? I couldn't immediately figure out what the
> > SCRIPT_NAME is supposed to be. Is this a bug with my webserver or
> > my setup? (I use lighttpd 1.4.28, my config is at
> > http://sprunge.us/JCCO, the fastcgi script is at
> > http://github.com/Dieterbe/dieterblog/blob/manageable/fcgi.py)
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Dieter
> > 
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