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[François Marier <francois@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We also need to modify the magic_quotes error message to include the
.htaccess stuff that people on shared hosting need to add.

** Changed in: mahara
       Status: Fix Committed => In Progress

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/766800

Title:
  Mahara should not overwrite web server configuration

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  We currently ship a .htaccess with Mahara. I would like to suggest
  that we shouldn't be messing with people web server configuration. We
  should provide guidance as to how to configure it right (on the wiki
  already) and issue errors and warnings when we detect that certain
  settings are wrong.

  The current .htaccess has a few problems:

  - it prevents people from installing Mahara in some cases (e.g. http://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=2728)
  - it assumes that people will be running Apache