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[[!meta date="2010-03-14 14:58:13 -0400"]]
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If you try to include a `.htaccess` file in your wiki's source, in order to
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configure the web server, you'll find that ikiwiki excludes it from
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processing. In fact, ikiwiki excludes any file starting with a dot, as well
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as a lot of other files, for good security reasons.
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You can tell ikiwiki not to exclude the .htaccess file by adding this to
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your setup file:
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include => '^\.htaccess$',
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Caution! Before you do that, please think for a minute about who can edit
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your wiki. Are attachment uploads enabled? Can users commit changes
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directly to the version control system? Do you trust everyone who can
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make a change to not do Bad Things with the htaccess file? Do you trust
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everyone who *might* be able to make a change in the future? Note that a
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determined attacker who can write to the htaccess file can probably get a
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shell on your web server.
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If any of these questions have given you pause, I suggest you find a
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different way to configure the web server. One way is to not put the
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`.htaccess` file under ikiwiki's control, and just manually install it
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in the destdir. --[[Joey]]
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[Apache's documentation](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/htaccess.html)
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says:
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> In general, you should never use .htaccess files unless you don't have
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> access to the main server configuration file.
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