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Item6246: Security: twiki root directory should not be exposed as html doc root

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Currently, the twiki root is configured as an html doc root in Apache's twiki.conf. For secturity, sub directories need to be excluded explicitly, such as twiki/data. If an admin adds a new subdir (such as when installing an extension) that dir needs to be excluded as well. This is easy to forget.

It is much safer to not expose the twiki root as html doc. Only twiki/pub needs to be html doc root enabled, and twiki/bin needs to be cgi-bin enabled.

While at it, we should clean up the twiki root dir, and make it easier to install TWiki.

To do:

  • update twiki.conf
  • update installation docs and upgrade doc
  • update release notes
  • update apache config generator on twiki.org
  • replace .html docs in twiki root with .txt version (move to subdir?)

See proposal at TWiki:Codev/DontExposeTWikiRootAsHtmlDocRoot

-- TWiki:Main/PeterThoeny - 10 Apr 2009

-- TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny - 26 Oct 2009

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Summary Security: twiki root directory should not be exposed as html doc root
ReportedBy TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
Codebase 4.3.0, ~twiki4
SVN Range TWiki-5.0.0, Thu, 09 Apr 2009, build 17970
AppliesTo Engine
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Priority Enhancement
CurrentState Closed
WaitingFor

Checkins TWikirev:18189 TWikirev:18190 TWikirev:18844 TWikirev:18845
TargetRelease minor
ReleasedIn 5.0.0
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Topic revision: r6 - 2010-05-31 - PeterThoeny
 
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