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Item6914: Securing attachments: Use Alias/ScriptAlias instead of Apache rewrite rules

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AppliesTo:	Component:	Priority:	CurrentState:	WaitingFor:	TargetRelease	ReleasedIn
Engine		Normal	Closed		patch	5.1.2

Detail

The TWikiAccessControl currently suggest to use Apache rewrite rules to secure attachments, e.g. to make them aware of topic access restrictions. On 2012-08-13, TWiki:Main.WillemEngen

suggested in TWiki:TWiki.TWikiAccessControl

to simply use Alias and ScriptAlias instead of rewrite rules.

This item tracks the changes in the docs and in TWiki:TWiki.ApacheConfigGenerator.

Related, the doc is updated to use /pub for pub URL path instead of /twiki/pub.

-- TWiki:Main/PeterThoeny - 2012-08-15

This is now in SVN trunk and 5.1 branch. TWiki:TWiki.ApacheConfigGenerator is updated as well.

-- TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny - 2012-08-16

ItemTemplate
Summary	Securing attachments: Use Alias/ScriptAlias instead of Apache rewrite rules
ReportedBy	TWiki:Main.WillemEngen
Codebase	~twiki4, 5.1.1
SVN Range	TWiki-5.1.1-trunk, Fri, 27 Jul 2012, build 23097
AppliesTo	Engine
Component
Priority	Normal
CurrentState	Closed
WaitingFor
Checkins	TWikirev:23165 TWikirev:23166
TargetRelease	patch
ReleasedIn	5.1.2