DefaultDocument target must exist, even in RepoAuthoritative mode

[fredemmott]

Took me a while to figure this out

1. Write an index.php file
2. Build bytecode cache for this index.php
3. hhvm -vDefaultDocument=index.php -vRepo.Central.Path=$(pwd)/hhvm.hhbc -vRepo.Authoritative=true -m server -p 8080
4. Go to http://host:8080, get 'not found'
5. 'touch index.php' and re-start hhvm, exactly as before
6. index.php in hhvm.hhbc now executes when going to http://host:8080

[karpa13a]

dupe of many)

[fredemmott]

@karpa13a: could you provide a reference to the canonical one please? I'm not seeing anything that's obviously the same in issues tagged 'documentation', 'duplicate', or 'wontfix'.

[karpa13a]

#737
m?

[scannell]

@karpa13a is right. The prognosis hasn't changed -- not on the priority list at the moment. Feel free to submit a patch if you (or someone else reading this) gets to it before we do; work on the builtin webserver has pretty much stopped due to FastCGI.

[gajime]

This may be a performance issue if you consider hhvm is obviously checking if the file exists -> disk i/o

By the way, this existing check occurs for every file! Even if 'Authoritative = true' prevents from interpreting the file.

[ptarjan]

I'm closing tasks related to the deprecated webserver. Please use fastcgi.