Fix broken baseurl in cgi mode when usedirs is disabled. Bug introduced in 3.20101231.

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diff --git a/doc/todo/apache_404_ErrorDocument_handler.mdwn b/doc/todo/apache_404_ErrorDocument_handler.mdwn
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--- a/doc/todo/apache_404_ErrorDocument_handler.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/apache_404_ErrorDocument_handler.mdwn
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ I think it'd probably have to be a separate CGI script because the environment w
 (having said that, it might make sense for `recentchanges_link` to return 404 rather than
 200 anyway if the page doesn't exist).
 
 (having said that, it might make sense for `recentchanges_link` to return 404 rather than
 200 anyway if the page doesn't exist).
 

+> This turns out to be untrue, as long as the wrapper lets a couple of extra
+> environment variables through. --[[smcv]]
+

 This would give IkiWiki the behaviour of many other wikis, where visiting a page that
 does not yet exist prompts you to create it, without having to invoke the CGI for
 successful requests.
 This would give IkiWiki the behaviour of many other wikis, where visiting a page that
 does not yet exist prompts you to create it, without having to invoke the CGI for
 successful requests.


@@ -15,4 +18,8 @@ successful requests.
 Due to [a well-known MSIE misfeature](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q294807),
 error output needs to be at least 512 bytes long, so some padding might also be required.
 
 Due to [a well-known MSIE misfeature](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q294807),
 error output needs to be at least 512 bytes long, so some padding might also be required.
 

-I'm happy to write such a script if there is interest. --[[smcv]]
+Implemented in the 'goto' branch in my git repository. You can see this
+feature in action [on my blog](http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/no/such/page/).
+--[[smcv]]
+
+[[done]]