Question

In bin/.htaccess there is the note:

# The path here must be a URL path, not a file pathname - first part should
# match the $scriptUrlPath in TWiki.cfg
ErrorDocument 401 !URL_path_to_TWiki!/bin/oops/TWiki/TWikiRegistration?template=oopsauth

I have set that to the appropraite URL:

ErrorDocument 401 http://www.infosecwiki.com/bin/oops/TWiki/TWikiRegistration?template=oopsauth

but in my apache logs I get

[Mon Jun 20 21:34:32 2005] [notice] cannot use a full URL in a 401 ErrorDocument directive --- ignoring!

This seems to contradict the note in bin/.htaccess

I've tried searching Code but "401 +url" and a few other strings turns up pages which have not "401" in the body!

Environment

-- AntonAylward - 21 Jun 2005

Answer

You want to put the absolute path to the error document. See http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#errordocument for a discussion on why not to use URL's.

-- SteveRJones - 24 Jun 2005

would anyone care to provide a patch for the documentation, please? (the note in bin/.htaccess)

-- WillNorris - 24 Jun 2005