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+With a statement such as
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+ ErrorDocument 404 /wiki/cgi-bin/ikiwiki?do=create
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+in `apache`'s configuration, I think that it would be possible to let the user surf to non-existent pages and be prompted to create an entry, as it is with other popular wiki engines.
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+From the [apache documentation](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/custom-error.html), it seems that the environment variable `REDIRECT_URL` will carry the name of the page the user has accessed.
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