Dotfiles are not generated anymore

[jlecour]

Hi,

In a blog managed with 0.5.7, I have an .htaccess in the root directory. It contains some rules depending on the published posts, … and it needs to be parsed and generated into the _site directory.

It was working great until I update to Jekyll 0.6.2 where this file is simply ignored.
I don't know if it's a bug or a new feature/default configuration that I'm not aware of.

Thanks for any help.

Here is my .htaccess file :

---
layout: nil

---
ErrorDocument 404 /404.html
ErrorDocument 500 /500.html
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
{% for post in site.posts %}
    {% if post.post_id != null %}RewriteRule ^r/{{ post.post_id }}/?$ {{ post.url }} [R=301,L]{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
</IfModule>

[jlecour]

It still doesn't seem to work with jekyll 0.7

[jlecour]

I've made a pull request associated with #210

[stereobooster]

solved in #208

[jlecour]

I'm sorry, but this doesn't work.

I can see that there is a passing test, but the file is not really generated.

Is there a debug or verbose mode to see why it doesn't generate it ?

[stereobooster]

I didn't check it, but relly upon this comment

Maybe jekyll_alias_generator will solve your problem

[jlecour]

@stereobooster Thanks for trying to help me with this, but I really need an .htaccess file, not only for a few basic redirections.

And in my case it's an .htaccess file, but it could be any other dotfile that needs to be in the website's directory

[ghost]

This has to do with line 315 in lib/jekyll/site.rb. The line excludes all files beginning with ., _, or #.

[jlecour]

@dunsmoreb In fact the filter_entries method is indeed filtering such files, but it's also using a global include array of files to, well, include (as in "not exclude") ;-)

I've added this in my _config.yml, and now, it's working :

include:
  - .htaccess

[jlecour]

I've just realised that this "include" list is working only in the master branch. The latest release (v0.11.2) doesn't work like this.

I hope @mojombo will release soon to benefit from this new feature.

[qrush]

Sounds like this is fixed. Yell if not.