How can I have a .htaccess-tag with Jekyll?

Question

Jekyll creates folders for every part of the url. So when I have:

www.myurl.com/blog/tag/.htaccess

it (this _tag_gen.rb plugin) actually creates:

www.myurl.com 
            └─ blog
               └─ tag
                  └──.htaccess
                     └── index.html

This is a problem, because of Apache .htaccess files. When I have this folder, the whole tag-folder becomes inaccessible.

But as it works for Wordpress (proof - but, I think, WP does not actually generate the folder) I think this should also work with Jekyll.

How can I have a .htaccess tag with Jekyll that doesn't mess everything else up?

Answer 1

Do you absolutely need to create your tags this way, i.e. with a plugin that generates an actual folder for each tag?

If you can live with that, you could use a single page containing all tags instead...your problem would just go away then.