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[[!template id=plugin name=404 author="[[Simon_McVittie|smcv]]"]] [[!tag type/useful]]

This plugin lets you use the IkiWiki CGI script as an Apache 404 handler, to give the behaviour of various other wiki engines where visiting a nonexistent page provides you with a link to create it.

To achieve this, put something like this in the wiki's Apache configuration file:

ErrorDocument 404 /ikiwiki.cgi

(The path here needs to be whatever the path is to the ikiwiki.cgi from the root of your web server.)

Or put something like this in the wiki's Lighttpd (>=1.4.17) configuration file:

server.error-handler-404 = "/ikiwiki.cgi"