httpauth: Add httpauth_pagespec setting that can be used to limit pages to only being edited via users authed with httpauth.

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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.