Allow override of docroot/.htaccess about dkan-tools HOT 3 CLOSED

We're going to try doing this with patches in the drupal core makefile. But so far we've had trouble with local patches, so we're going to try to fix that as part of this as well...

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I've done this successfully with existing tools.

1. First, make the changes you want to .htaccess, and use whatever your favorite process is to create a patch file. What I do is make the change (for this example I just added a single commented-out line, "TESTING .htaccess PATCH"), do git diff --relative .htaccess > htaccess-patch.patch, then revert the change (git checkout .htaccess).

My resulting file looks like this:

diff --git a/.htaccess b/.htaccess
index 37fce10..37b6fdb 100644
--- a/.htaccess
+++ b/.htaccess
@@ -152,3 +152,5 @@ DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm
   # Disable content sniffing, since it's an attack vector.
   Header always set X-Content-Type-Options nosniff
 </IfModule>
+
+# TESTING .htaccess PATCH
\ No newline at end of file

2. Place your patch file in /src/patches/ (the actual path doesn't really matter as long as it's outside /docroot)

3. Add some lines like this to /src/make/drupal.make:

projects:
  drupal:
    patch:
      1: ../src/patches/htaccess-patch.patch

4. Next time you run drupal:make (soon to be replaced by make:drupal or just make) the patch should apply. Note that the patch file will also be copied into the project directory (docroot in the case of Drupal, the module folder if you're applying a local patch to a module), which is just some drush make weirdness we can't avoid.

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@dafeder Awesome, this looks great to me, hopefully @janette can confirm that it works.

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