[Savannah-cvs] [195] mention .htaccess

[karl]

Revision: 195
          
http://svn.sv.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=administration&revision=195
Author:   karl
Date:     2016-06-20 17:33:15 +0000 (Mon, 20 Jun 2016)
Log Message:
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mention .htaccess

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/sviki/HomePage.mdwn

Modified: trunk/sviki/HomePage.mdwn
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--- trunk/sviki/HomePage.mdwn   2016-06-18 22:17:52 UTC (rev 194)
+++ trunk/sviki/HomePage.mdwn   2016-06-20 17:33:15 UTC (rev 195)
@@ -7,24 +7,33 @@
 - For gnu projects: gnu.org/software/project/ (shortcut: gnu.org/s/project/)
 - For nongnu projects: www.nongnu.org/project/ and project.nongnu.org/
 
+Initial upload of web pages: [[HomepageUpload]].
+
+Basic CVS usage: [[CvsGettingStarted]].
+
+Symlinks
+--------
 No symlinks (address@hidden says: "security reasons" and "there's also
 the fact that CVS doesn't handle symlinks") - use .symlinks instead. Add
 a file named .symlinks in each directory where you want to make symbolic
 links. Each line of the file lists a real file name followed by the name
 of the symbolic link. The symbolic links are built every hour.
 
-Initial upload of web pages: [[HomepageUpload]].
+.htaccess
+---------
+An Apache `.htaccess` file can be used, with some limitations.  The
+enclosing server configuration says:
 
-Basic CVS usage: [[CvsGettingStarted]].
+    AllowOverride Indexes FileInfo Limit AuthConfig
 
+General CGI scripts are not allowed.
+
 Using a different VCS
 ---------------------
 Many people have requested using something other than CVS for their web
 page repositories.  This is not unreasonable in principle, but requires
 substantial frontend work, backend work, and coordination with the FSF
-sysadmins.  There is no ETA for any of this.
+sysadmins.  There is no ETA for any of this.  Meanwhile, perhaps
+git-over-cvs could be used, but we have no experience with this.
 
-Meanwhile, perhaps git-over-cvs could be used, but we have no experience
-with this.
-
-The source repositories can use any supported VC.
+Source repositories can use any supported VC.