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diff --git a/doc/plugins/httpauth.mdwn b/doc/plugins/httpauth.mdwn index a7aac558b..0eda5554f 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/httpauth.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/httpauth.mdwn @@ -24,3 +24,12 @@ A typical setup is to make an `auth` subdirectory, and symlink `ikiwiki.cgi` into it. Then configure the web server to require authentication only for access to the `auth` subdirectory. Then `cgiauthurl` is pointed at this symlink. + +## using only httpauth for some pages + +If you want to only use httpauth for editing some pages, while allowing +other authentication methods to be used for other pages, you can +configure `httpauth_pagespec` in the setup file. This makes Edit +links on pages that match the [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]] automatically use +the `cgiauthurl`, and prevents matching pages from being edited by +users authentication via other methods. |