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## separate cgiauthurl
To use httpauth for a wiki where the content is public, and where
-the `ikiwiki.cgi` needs to be usable without authentication (for searching
-and so on), you can configure a separate url that is used for
-authentication, via the `cgiauthurl` option in the setup file. This
-url will then be redirected to whenever authentication is needed.
+the `ikiwiki.cgi` needs to be usable without authentication (for searching,
+or logging in using other methods, and so on), you can configure a separate
+url that is used for authentication, via the `cgiauthurl` option in the setup
+file. This url will then be redirected to when a user chooses to log in using
+httpauth.
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