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index 968279113..3b9721d50 100644
--- a/doc/todo/enable-htaccess-files.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/enable-htaccess-files.mdwn
@@ -12,6 +12,13 @@
                     qr/(^|\/).svn\//, qr/.arch-ids\//, qr/{arch}\//],
            wiki_link_regexp => qr/\[\[(?:([^\]\|]+)\|)?([^\s\]#]+)(?:#([^\s\]]+))?\]\]/,
 
+> Note that the above patch is **completely broken**. 
+> It removes the crucial excludes of all files starting with a dot.
+> The negative regexps for htaccess have no effect, so the whole
+> thing only "works" because it allows *any* file starting with a dot.
+> If you applied this patch to your ikiwiki, you opened a huge security
+> hole. --[[Joey]] 
+
 [[!tag patch patch/core]]
 
 This lets the site administrator have a `.htaccess` file in their underlay
@@ -39,6 +46,13 @@ access and such .htaccess files should not be accessible through wiki cgi. Of co
 
 > See [[!debbug 447267]] for a patch for this.
 
+>> It looks to me as though this functionality won't be included in ikiwiki
+>> unless someone who wants it takes responsibility for updating the patch
+>> from that Debian bug to be applicable to current versions, so that there's a
+>> setup file parameter for extra filenames to allow, defaulting to none
+>> (i.e. a less simplistic patch than the one at the top of this page).
+>> Joey, is this an accurate summary? --[[smcv]]
+
 ---
 
 bump! I would like to see some form of this functionality included in ikiwiki. I use a patched version, but
@@ -50,5 +64,17 @@ It should be off by default of course. --Max
 ---
 +1 I want `.htaccess` so I can rewrite some old Wordpress URLs to make feeds work again. --[[hendry]]
 
+> Unless you cannot modify apache's configuration, you do not need htaccess
+> to do that. Apache's documentation recommends against using htaccess
+> unless you're a user who cannot modify the main server configuration.
+> --[[Joey]] 
+
 ---
 +1 for various purposes (but sometimes the filename isn't `.htaccess`, so please make it configurable) --[[schmonz]]
+
+> I've described a workaround for one use case at the [[plugins/rsync]] [[plugins/rsync/discussion]] page. --[[schmonz]]
+
+---
+
+[[done]], you can use the `include` setting to override the default
+excludes now. Please use extreme caution when doing so. --[[Joey]]