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-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 198455f37..1320e4f41 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ ikiwiki (2.66) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
creating a new page will save it to foo/index.mdwn by default.
Closes: #474611
(Sponsored by The TOVA Company.)
+ * 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.