How to use htaccess on the new Webhosting infrastructure?
Using htaccess to protect or "manipulate" your webhost has changed a litte bit. On the "old" Apache-Servers, you could use files like "my-htaccessfile.acl" to protect your folder or page. This is not working anymore. Htaccess-Files have to be named ".htaccess" to work. (yes, there is a leading "point")
This is for security-reasons. Please have a look at the provided example-file in the htaccess-template folder. You can just copy this file to any folder, rename it to ".htaccess" and change the needed lines to your liking.
So what are the major differences?
- Files have to be named ".htaccess" in order to work
- SMBAuth Directives are not working anymore since the data is not on Windows-Shares.
- How to authenticate "groups" with PSI's "AD" (Active Directory) is described in the Example htaccess-file
IMPORTANT: Please inform us in the Wiki-Task if you have password-protected content. We will then activate SSL Security on your host for maximum protection.
For more information on how to use htaccess, please see the following pages: htaccess How-To
Everything else you need to know is written directly inside the htaccess-example file.