[support] D7: .htaccess in temporary directory?

[Jamie Holly]

I believe there's an issue opened on this. I've seen where many have 
moved their tmp directory to other folders, including inside the 
webroot, but I have left it as /tmp on client sites as that's much more 
secure.

Jamie Holly
http://hollyit.net

On 4/13/2014 4:29 AM, Shérab wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> On a D7 site, admin/reports/status says there should be a .htaccess file
> in the temporary directory.
> However this directory is in /tmp so outside of the docuemnt root
> and moreover a file there would be removed at each system startup so
> would have to be re-installed.
>
> Should the temporay directory for Drupal be somewhere else?
>
> Many thanks for any help about this!
>
> Shérab.