On Thu, May 3, 2007 3:46 am, Grant Gardner wrote: > David M. Besonen wrote: >> is there anything i need to be concerned about wrt >> dokuwiki functioning properly now that i've manually >> edited it's root .htaccess file? >> >> everything seems to work fine. i'm asking to avoid >> being surprised by a problem that i might not have >> immediately noticed. > > I've (re)written a dokuwiki authentication module to > use htaccess which is useful if you want dokuwiki to > know about your authenticated user. in this case i'm using htaccess simply to limit who can view the wiki with a single username/password combo. once past the htaccess users who want to edit the wiki will need to sign-in. since it doesn't appear that the htaccess/htpasswd file is auto-modified by dokuwiki, there is less value in using a dokuwiki authentication module since doing so would require manual editing of the htaccess and htpasswd files. > There are a number of dokuwiki things related to ACL > and user manager that don't work fully behind BASIC > auth. can you give some examples? are any of them show stoppers? -- david -- DokuWiki mailing list - more info at http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:mailinglist