Rails - Oct 2005 - lighttpd error: error-handler not found: /dispatch.fcgi

I looked in my lighttpd error log, and I see a bunch of these errors:
(connections.c.1281) error-handler not found: /dispatch.fcgi

I''m not sure where they''re coming from or what they, and most
of my
app seems to be working fine - so dispatch.fcgi must be available. 
Any clue what could be causing this?

Thanks,
Pat

You likely have something like this in your config:
server.document-root = "/somedir/railsapp/public"
server.error-handler-404 = "/dispatch.fcgi"

It tells lighttpd to call dispatch.fcgi for files that do not exist, 
thus all the non-static content (all that is not in images, stylesheets 
and scripts usually).

Do you have another reference to dispatch.fcgi in your lighttpd.conf?

Pat Maddox wrote:
>I looked in my lighttpd error log, and I see a bunch of these errors:
>(connections.c.1281) error-handler not found: /dispatch.fcgi
>
>I''m not sure where they''re coming from or what they, and
most of my
>app seems to be working fine - so dispatch.fcgi must be available. 
>Any clue what could be causing this?
>
>Thanks,
>Pat
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Hey Jos,

Thanks for the reply.

Yeah, I have the error handler set to dispatch.fcgi.  The other
references to it are for my URL rewrites and the bin-path for the
fastcgi.server.

Judging from the error messages, it would be a problem with my
error-handler-404 setting, but I have it set exactly like you
mentioned, which is what I''ve seen in every example lighttpd config so
far.

Pat



On 10/13/05, Jos <jos-opYYzZorcyRWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> You likely have something like this in your config:
> server.document-root = "/somedir/railsapp/public"
> server.error-handler-404 = "/dispatch.fcgi"
>
> It tells lighttpd to call dispatch.fcgi for files that do not exist,
> thus all the non-static content (all that is not in images, stylesheets
> and scripts usually).
>
> Do you have another reference to dispatch.fcgi in your lighttpd.conf?
>
> Pat Maddox wrote:
>
> >I looked in my lighttpd error log, and I see a bunch of these errors:
> >(connections.c.1281) error-handler not found: /dispatch.fcgi
> >
> >I''m not sure where they''re coming from or what they,
and most of my
> >app seems to be working fine - so dispatch.fcgi must be available.
> >Any clue what could be causing this?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Pat
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> >http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
> >
> >
>
>

Pat-
     I have the same problem sometimes. I have had Jan(author of  
light) look at my conf file and he''s not sure why its happening  
either. I have my server.error-handler-404 = "/dispatch.fcgi" set and
everything. The problem for me is that the rails app I built replaces  
a ;arge php app that had high search rankings and many other people  
linking to our stories and such. So there are a lot of requests for  
old .php pages that seem to sneak by the server.error-handler-404 = "/ 
dispatch.fcgi" and give me the same errors in the lighttpd_error.log  
and also give backtraces in my production log which is very annoying.  
I have tried a number of things but I can''t get rid these errors.
     Anyone out there have a snippet that will catch these 404  
misses? I would really appreciate it.

Cheers-
-Ezra

On Oct 13, 2005, at 5:56 AM, Pat Maddox wrote:
> Hey Jos,
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Yeah, I have the error handler set to dispatch.fcgi.  The other
> references to it are for my URL rewrites and the bin-path for the
> fastcgi.server.
>
> Judging from the error messages, it would be a problem with my
> error-handler-404 setting, but I have it set exactly like you
> mentioned, which is what I''ve seen in every example lighttpd
config so
> far.
>
> Pat
>
>
>
> On 10/13/05, Jos <jos-opYYzZorcyRWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> You likely have something like this in your config:
>> server.document-root = "/somedir/railsapp/public"
>> server.error-handler-404 = "/dispatch.fcgi"
>>
>> It tells lighttpd to call dispatch.fcgi for files that do not exist,
>> thus all the non-static content (all that is not in images,  
>> stylesheets
>> and scripts usually).
>>
>> Do you have another reference to dispatch.fcgi in your lighttpd.conf?
>>
>> Pat Maddox wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I looked in my lighttpd error log, and I see a bunch of these  
>>> errors:
>>> (connections.c.1281) error-handler not found: /dispatch.fcgi
>>>
>>> I''m not sure where they''re coming from or what
they, and most of my
>>> app seems to be working fine - so dispatch.fcgi must be available.
>>> Any clue what could be causing this?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Pat
>>> _______________________________________________
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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Hey Pat-
     After some looking around and more googling I found this blog  
post:<http://rubyurl.com/SA3>. Setting this up and tweaking it a bit  
has completely solved the problem. No more of these at all:
>>>> (connections.c.1281) error-handler not found: /dispatch.fcgi

Cheers-
-Ezra

On Oct 13, 2005, at 7:30 AM, Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:
> Pat-
>     I have the same problem sometimes. I have had Jan(author of  
> light) look at my conf file and he''s not sure why its happening  
> either. I have my server.error-handler-404 = "/dispatch.fcgi" set
> and everything. The problem for me is that the rails app I built  
> replaces a ;arge php app that had high search rankings and many  
> other people linking to our stories and such. So there are a lot of  
> requests for old .php pages that seem to sneak by the server.error- 
> handler-404 = "/dispatch.fcgi" and give me the same errors in the
> lighttpd_error.log and also give backtraces in my production log  
> which is very annoying. I have tried a number of things but I
can''t
> get rid these errors.
>     Anyone out there have a snippet that will catch these 404  
> misses? I would really appreciate it.
>
> Cheers-
> -Ezra
>
> On Oct 13, 2005, at 5:56 AM, Pat Maddox wrote:
>
>
>> Hey Jos,
>>
>> Thanks for the reply.
>>
>> Yeah, I have the error handler set to dispatch.fcgi.  The other
>> references to it are for my URL rewrites and the bin-path for the
>> fastcgi.server.
>>
>> Judging from the error messages, it would be a problem with my
>> error-handler-404 setting, but I have it set exactly like you
>> mentioned, which is what I''ve seen in every example lighttpd  
>> config so
>> far.
>>
>> Pat
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/13/05, Jos <jos-opYYzZorcyRWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>>
>>
>>> You likely have something like this in your config:
>>> server.document-root = "/somedir/railsapp/public"
>>> server.error-handler-404 = "/dispatch.fcgi"
>>>
>>> It tells lighttpd to call dispatch.fcgi for files that do not
exist,
>>> thus all the non-static content (all that is not in images,  
>>> stylesheets
>>> and scripts usually).
>>>
>>> Do you have another reference to dispatch.fcgi in your  
>>> lighttpd.conf?
>>>
>>> Pat Maddox wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I looked in my lighttpd error log, and I see a bunch of these  
>>>> errors:
>>>> (connections.c.1281) error-handler not found: /dispatch.fcgi
>>>>
>>>> I''m not sure where they''re coming from or
what they, and most of my
>>>> app seems to be working fine - so dispatch.fcgi must be
available.
>>>> Any clue what could be causing this?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Pat
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Rails mailing list
>>>> Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>
> -Ezra Zygmuntowicz
> WebMaster
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