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authorJoey Hess <joey@kodama.kitenet.net>2008-09-30 21:03:51 -0400
committerJoey Hess <joey@kodama.kitenet.net>2008-09-30 21:03:51 -0400
commit0651e86a4c3e6f038b1362e33ea08235f046c102 (patch)
treeab55ba3ff395303351cbdd41e86945b65833e0bc
parentb5bc0e812d7bc5b69826039131b74071d23337c1 (diff)
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httpauth: Document that ikiwiki.cgi has to be in a directory subject to authentication. Closes: #500524
-rw-r--r--debian/changelog2
-rw-r--r--doc/plugins/httpauth.mdwn4
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 394eba26a..d7cbf38b5 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ ikiwiki (2.66) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
page, and is preserved across rebuilds.
* editpage: Be more aggressive (and less buggy) about cleaning up
temporary files rendered during page preview.
+ * httpauth: Document that ikiwiki.cgi has to be in a directory subject to
+ authentication. Closes: #500524
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:45:55 -0400
diff --git a/doc/plugins/httpauth.mdwn b/doc/plugins/httpauth.mdwn
index fbf366291..11ed223e7 100644
--- a/doc/plugins/httpauth.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/httpauth.mdwn
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
This plugin allows HTTP basic authentication to be used to log into the
wiki. To use the plugin, your web server should be set up to perform HTTP
-basic authentiation. The authenticated user will be automatically signed
-into the wiki.
+basic authentiation for at least the directory containing `ikiwiki.cgi`.
+The authenticated user will be automatically signed into the wiki.
This plugin is included in ikiwiki, but is not enabled by default.