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[[!template id=plugin name=apache404 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 /cgi-bin/ikiwiki.cgi