diff --git a/doc/todo/enable-htaccess-files.mdwn b/doc/todo/enable-htaccess-files.mdwn
index c08502bdd..3b9721d50 100644
--- a/doc/todo/enable-htaccess-files.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/enable-htaccess-files.mdwn
@@ -64,6 +64,11 @@ It should be off by default of course. --Max
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 +1 I want `.htaccess` so I can rewrite some old Wordpress URLs to make feeds work again. --[[hendry]]
 
+> Unless you cannot modify apache's configuration, you do not need htaccess
+> to do that. Apache's documentation recommends against using htaccess
+> unless you're a user who cannot modify the main server configuration.
+> --[[Joey]] 
+
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 +1 for various purposes (but sometimes the filename isn't `.htaccess`, so please make it configurable) --[[schmonz]]