Cosign 'permit .htaccess' patch

Motivation

Cosign restricts many of the configuration options to only be permitted from the Apache server config. For some of the options this is appropriate since it doesn't make sense to vary them on a per-directory basis, but for others this seems to be unnecessarily restrictive.

The Solution

This patch relaxes this restriction for four configuration options:

Here are the most recent versions of the patch:

All versions of the patch are listed here. Some may work better than others.

Installation

This is a patch against the Cosign source code. I apply it with something like:
patch -p1 < cosign-permit-htaccess.patch

Steve Bennett
last updated: 06/03/2007