I found another case... the media library creates thumbnails with "apache:apache rw-rw-rw-" permissions as well. I understand that s9y probably just creates the file with whatever default permissions our system uses, but those of us in shared hosting environments have little control over the default ...

Serendipity asssumes all subdirectories under its directory are Serendipity's.

Erm, OK.


This usually works out fine, because anything else that uses redirection will write its own .htaccess, and Apache uses the one from the closest directory.

Yes, this is fine for redirection because the mod ...

If .htaccess does not exist when you change the URL rewriting options, s9y attempts to create it. If / when it creates the file, it creates it with world readable file permissions.

Before setting URL rewrite options...


pat@freestd ~/domains/patricklanigan.org/public_html $ ls -l .htaccess
ls ...

We really need a way to specify the permissions of files that s9y creates. So far, when s9y creates a file on my server, it gets set rw-rw-rw- ... ie, world readable and writable! This is not good in shared hosting environments!

OK, I'm not sure if this is a "feature" or a "bug".

When URL rewriting is enabled, it writes the following line to the .htaccess file in the s9y root directory.


DirectoryIndex /index.php


If you have s9y installed in the server root and other packages (say, gallery2) in subdirectories, the ...